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… "But Tony won't let us untie him. He takes to carrying around his old twelve-bore just in case we gets ideas, he says, about letting Otis go.
"Otis tried, I mean he really did, singin' the old songs like Thomas the Rhymer, Matty Groves, an' all, but that just made Tony angrier so he took a spade and whopped off two of Otis's toes….
by Chris Amies who was born in South West London and lives in Kingston Upon Thames. He currently works in internal publicity for a Government department, after having previously taught English as a Foreign Language. His novel "Dead Ground" was published by Big Engine in 2001 and an illustrated historical book "Hammersmith and Fulham Pubs" was published by Tempus in 2004