Most of the horses were inside to avoid the flies, and were let out at night. And I passed a poster of Janey Lloyd-Foxe in the tube, telling me to read her column every week, so I drew a moustache on her and wrote “bitch” underneath. Revenge still put in the odd huge buck and had a piece out of Fen if he’d got out of bed the wrong side. His throat went dry and he had to clutch on to the rickety table for support.
You just don’t like to see people enjoying themselves. “I must have left them in the lorry. But he got around with a very creditable twelve faults. She was very good at her job, Sarah, and extremely attractive, with long black hair which never got greasy and a flawless creamy skin which never got spots.
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