Sentence The twohundredandninetyeighth
The sombre WPC Isa Urquhart put down her telephone and turned to Trainee WPC Gertie Mountcastle, a serious look on her normally humorous face: “it wisnae Cat Cubie, Gertie, it wis Peter
Sloss wha named the Storum Gertrude, he's the tap Herald at the Scottish Weather Centre, an he names the Storums” and Gertie turned a baleful face towards her cousin and mentor: “Peter Sloss? that bacchant? but he wis wi us in the pub just twa days ago and he never mentioned onythin, though ah mind he ca'd the wee space atween the sources o Clyde an Tweed 'the Isthmus' which ah thocht wiz stretchin the term a tad” and Isa looked back, straight into Gertie's eyes: “no, but you beat him at Dominoes an won the Cup," and Gertie gasped: “the wash-baw! so it wis Vengeance!”

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