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THE GIRL

ASSES’ MILK

W. Howard Baker

A FIVE STAR PAPERBACK

Published in 1972 by PBS Limited,

Victoria Mills, Pollard Street, Manchester

M4 7AU

CHAPTER ONE

Hardly ever does the lion lie down with the

lamb. The time will come, we are promised by the

unilateral disarmers, when this happy state will be

universal. But that time is not yet.

Nor, strictly speaking, was this particular lion –

which was no metaphorical beast but a real,

maned, toothed, mean-eyed specimen of panthera

Leo – lying down with the lamb. But it was

walking behind it with a slow-stepping, amicable

gait which boded no evil intent.

More remarkably, at the side of the King of

Beasts strode his consort, following with equal

amiability a small ewe lamb.

Following the lions walked a pair of large, gaily

coloured Equatorial lizards, moving a little

rapidly because of the relative shortness of their

legs.

And after them came a brace of lorises,

members of a species of Indo-Chinese lemur, who

were followed in turn by a pair of lynxes,

containing their natural impetuosity with some

diffculty. And after the lynxes…

The razor-witted reader will have appreciated

already that here was a case of alphabetical

progression, according to the Book of Genesis. He

will have noted also that the animals were moving

in pairs, each according to his kind.

Therefore it will not surprise him to learn that a

pair of aardvaarks, those improbable South

African edentata, led the parade.

Nor would it surprise him to learn that the head

of the same parade of “A” animals – aardvaarks to

agoutis – was now moving upward from a scene of

dense jungle along a sloping plank towards a vast,

uncouth boat, vessel… or Ark.

Nor would he, frankly, be at all surprised to

learn that it was raining… heavily.

“The Deluge,” murmurs the razor-witted reader.

“Noah’s Ark and the Flood.”

And he is right. Or very nearly.

For suddenly out of the jungle there erupts a

small, stout, frenzied figure in a checked shirt,

suede boots and corduroy slacks.

“That’s enough of that damn rain,” shouts the

plump figure.

And unless we have all been greatly misled, this

remark was not Divine.

Still, obediently, the rain stops.

Sir Isidore Pugh, the famous film producer, had

been born under quite another name and in a very

different station in a small, superstition-ridden

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THEGIRLINASSES’MILKW.HowardBakerAFIVESTARPAPERBACKPublishedin1972byPBSLimited,VictoriaMills,PollardStreet,ManchesterM47AUCopyright©1967PressEditorialServices4CHAPTERONEHardlyeverdoesthelionliedownwiththelamb.Thetimewillcome,wearepromisedbytheunilateraldisarmers,whenthishappystatewillbeuniversal.Butt...

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