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  The Adventures of the New Cut Gang: Thunderbolt's Waxwork

Philip Pullman

The Adventures of the New Cut Gang: Thunderbolt's Waxwork

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  • Editeur: Penguin Books
  • Première parution : 1994
  • Non traduit en France
 
  Wiping apple of his glasses, Thunderbolt looked where Benny was pointing. Someone - a little skinny man in a rat-catcher's cap - was sneaking out of the stableyard gate, and trying unsuccessfully to conceal what he was carrying: the waxwork dummy, Benny's masterpiece, the portrait of Dippy Hitchcock.
  'Oi! Stop thief! Come back!'
  The little man looked over his shoulder in alarm. Seeing four determined children charging toward him, he gave a yelp and tried to run. But the dummy's dangling legs got between his feet and tripped him up, and as he rolled over the muddy pavement, squealing with panic, the dummy flailing arms wrapped themselves around him, so that he looked as if he were being attacked by a monster from a nightmare.
  Passers-by stopped to gape. Hearing the shouts, people looked across from the market stalls, came to the door of the Rose and Crown, opened windows and stared. A group of idle layabout dogs appeared from nowhere to surround the thief and the dummy, barking with joy, just like children around a fight in the playground.An elderly cab-horse shied nervously.
  The little man struggled free just as the gang arrived, scrambled to his feet, and fled. Benny was all for chasing him and making a citizen's arrest, but Bridie held him back.
  'Never mind him,' she said, 'we still got the dummy.'
  'Not all of it,' said Thunderbolt, lifting it up out to reachof the dogs. At some stage its nose had come off, and a terrier called Ron was eating it gleefully. When they realized what he'd got, the other dogs wanted some too, and Ron took the nose and fled; and less than a minute after it had started, all the excitement was over. Carrying the dummy between them, the gang went back into the stable yard, indignant at the dishonnesty of adults.


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