Luckily Father had gone out to play cards. I lay there in the dark sniffling and thinking that going to bed was the best way to get over a paddling.
I got up early the next day. I had two very important things to do: first, go have a look around, very casually.
If the snake was still there, I’d get it and hide it in my shirt. I could still use it somewhere else.
But it wasn’t. It’d be hard to find another stocking as snake-like as that one.
I turned and started off to Gran’s house. I needed to talk to Uncle Edmundo.
I knew it was still early for a retired person. I wanted to catch him
before he went out to buy a lottery ticket – or ‘place a bet’, as he called it – and pick up the newspapers.
I was right. He was in the living room playing a new kind of patience.
“Morning, Uncle!” He didn’t answer. He was pretending to be deaf.
Back at home everyone said that he did that when he wasn’t interested in the conversation.
But never with me. In fact (how I liked saying “in fact”!), he was never very deaf around me.
I tugged on his shirt sleeve and, as always, thought his black-and-white- chequered braces looked very fine.
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