Brock by Anthony McGowan

Author:Anthony McGowan
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781781128848
Publisher: Barrington Stoke

Seventeen

I had to scrape some blue off the bread before I could make Kenny’s beans on toast, but I read somewhere that it doesn’t do you any harm. Then I told Kenny to go and play at Samit’s house. Samit’s mum and dad are dead nice. Samit is a couple of years younger than Kenny, so they can play together OK.

Then I went down to the library. The library used to be open all the time, and I used to like going there when my mum and dad fell out. Also it’s good sometimes to have somewhere to go that’s free.

The library lady has big hair and glasses on a chain round her neck, just like you’d expect, but she’s always dead nice to me. She saw that I liked books about space and aliens, and sometimes she used to recommend things to me, but most of the time she just left me to get on with it. I don’t know what her name is, which is why I always just call her the library lady. She’s got a name badge, but it’s small and I don’t want to stare at her chest in case she thinks I’m a weirdo.

Since the cuts, the library’s only open some of the time. But on Saturday afternoons it’s open until two, so I was OK.

I looked in the big reference books first, but there wasn’t much about badgers. I mean, there was loads about their skeletons and that sort of thing, but nothing about how you’d take care of one. Then I went and asked the library lady if there were any books on badgers. She looked on the catalogue on her computer. “I thought so …” she said.

The book was just called Badger and it had everything you could want to know about badgers in it. It was one of the books you’re not allowed to take home, but I didn’t mind. I sat down at one of the big wooden tables and spent an hour going through it. After that I felt like I was an international badger expert. I knew what they ate (worms), where they lived, what sort of sounds they made, how big their families were, loads of stuff like that. But I still didn’t know how you’d look after one.

But one thing did stick in my head. The book said that most times there was a main sett where the badger family would live. There’d be quite a few badgers there of different ages, and there’d be loads and loads of tunnels and entrances.

But then you’d also get what were called “outliers”, which were small badger setts with just one main tunnel. Sometimes a couple of badgers from the main sett would move into an outlier for a while and then go back to the main sett.

That made me think that the sett that Jezbo had destroyed must be an outlier, and the main sett would be somewhere else. And then I began to think that maybe we could find the real sett, the main one, I mean, and take Snuffy back.

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