Two Crafty Criminals! by Philip Pullman

Author:Philip Pullman [Pullman, Philip]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-375-98868-4
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2012-05-08T04:00:00+00:00

Thunderbolt and Benny came out of the bush. Dick had wandered away weakly, and the twins had chased after Daisy.

“I reckon it’ll work,” said Benny. “It can’t fail. You know what, we oughter set up training people to do things they’re nervous about doing. Like suppose you had a cabman as was nervous of horses—we could train him to like ’em. Or a greengrocer as was frightened of cabbages. We could—”

“Frightened of cabbages?”

“You could get all sorts of strange fears,” Benny explained. “They’re called phobies. I heard the itnertist talk about ’em. Dr. Psycho—you remember. Him as itnertized old Dippy Hitchcock into thinking he was a chicken. You get spider phobies and horse phobies and cabbage phobies and all sorts. Dick’s got a love phoby. Anyway—”

“But if a person was frightened of cabbages,” persisted Thunderbolt, “they wouldn’t want to be a greengrocer in the first place.”

“But if they was,” said Benny hotly, “we could train ’em out of it, and then they could be one. Seems to me you don’t want to help Dick. Seems to me you don’t want to win this bet. You probably got a bet phoby,” he added severely.

Thunderbolt wasn’t sure about that. He hadn’t bet money very often, because Pa didn’t approve except for sixpence on the Derby, but when he had (with the twins’ advice), he’d generally been lucky. But then, the twins’ advice was usually sound, and they’d advised him to put everything he had on Dick at two to one. It had troubled Thunderbolt a bit, though, because the shilling he’d bet with Snake-Eyes Melmott had actually been given him by Pa to pay for a trigonometry lesson, and if Dick didn’t propose soon, Thunderbolt would be in trouble.

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