The Durrells of Corfu by Michael Haag

Author:Michael Haag
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Profile Books

Gerry with a stuffed barn owl standing by a cage of his Corfu ‘zoo’.

Larry, who was ‘talking glibly’ and not looking at what he was doing, withdrew a match from the box. The mother scorpion, seizing her chance to escape, scuttled out with her babies on board. Feeling the movement of the scorpion’s claws on the back of his hand, Larry glanced down to see what it was, and from that moment, as Gerry puts it, ‘things got increasingly confused’.

Larry let out a roar of fright and with an instinctive flick of his hand sent the scorpion flying down the length of the table, scattering its babies everywhere, hiding under the plates and the cutlery. Lugaretzia dropped her plate, Roger leapt out from under the table wildly barking. Leslie and Margo screamed as the scorpion sped towards them and knocked it back and forth between them with their napkins until Margo attacked it with a glass of water which missed the scorpion but drenched Mother. Sensing now that the whole family was under attack, though he did not know by whom, Roger spun round and round the room barking hysterically and then went for the one outsider and bit Lugaretzia in the leg.

‘It’s that bloody boy again,’ shouted Larry. ‘Look at the table, knee-deep in scorpions, He’ll kill the lot of us!’

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