Number 3 chiller
‘To look at them you’d never have thought they were kin. Tiny was 22, but his round soft face made him appear six years younger, still in the stammer of adolescence. Grandaddy was 99, generally lucid, but prey to the stuttering lapses of senility.
Anyone for tea? Woo-choo keffra cup, end a cucumbah sennwich?
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Strine: The Complete Works of Afferbeck Lauder contains Let Stalk Strine, Nose Tone Unturned, Fraffly Well Spoken and Fraffly Suite, all together in one hilarious volume. In all good bookstores now.
Cadge a smoke: Essay, may ay heff one of yossy grets? Thairk yaw. Herpew dernt maned.
Apologise for poor behaviour, perhaps due to drinking too much brendeh: Offly sorreh—hoss choop toffmeh!
Excuse oneself from the table formally: Herpule forgive meh, but Fred Emma sliffue. Fraffly sorreh.
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