Hunting Season: A Novel by Andrea Camilleri

Author:Andrea Camilleri [Camilleri, Andrea]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780143126539
Amazon: 0143126539
Barnesnoble: 0143126539
Goodreads: 19637896
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 2014-03-25T05:00:00+00:00

“Greetings to all,” he said, entering the Circolo dei Nobili. “What’s new?”

After the riot of greetings, exclamations of delight, and embraces, Barone Uccello informed his friend of the only new development, aside from the detailed inventory of lamented passings.

“The pharmacist has been broken in,” said the baron.

“What do you mean, ‘broken in’?”

“Do you remember the time we talked about him here at the club? Well, since then, and up until last week, Fofò La Matina’s situation had not changed: nary a woman.”

“But are you sure?”

“Cross my heart. Neither in Vigàta nor the provincial capital.”

“But how could he do without it?”

“Why, don’t priests do the same?” interjected Fede the surveyor, a churchgoing man.

“Good God, please don’t talk about priests to me,” said the baron. He continued: “Anyway, last Saturday, Signora Clelia, having learned from her maid that the pharmacist would not open shop that day because he had to prepare some medicinal herbs, made herself up and went and knocked at his door. Fofò opened up and found the lady before him. He tried not to let her inside, but there was nothing doing. Signora Clelia insisted she urgently needed to be examined. To make a long story short, she wasted no time; she reached out and grabbed him. The pharmacist froze. Didn’t budge. Encouraged, the lady undid his trousers and knickers and brought the thing out into the open. And that was when the pharmacist popped.”

“What do you mean, he ‘popped’?” asked Lieutenant Baldovino.

“You know, carissimo,” the marchese explained, “the way the cork pops when you fill the barrel too full of wine.”

“Later, in the two hours that followed, the pharmacist attended to the lady till his barrel was empty,” the baron continued. “When Signora Clelia came out of the pharmacy, people say she looked like a cat with a full belly, purring down the street.”

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