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The Fourhundredandeightyfirst
And so it might have
remained, in the Church of Our Lady of Longformacus, with Father
Mungo Macaneny in his alcohol induced reverie – or Dram Dwam as my
mother would have called it – lost in recollections of his days as
a star wrestler in ITV's World of Sport, but for the arrival of Lulu
and
her Girl Gang with the pantechnicon, for so smitten as Father
Macaneny (or Archbishop Makarios, as Maude continued to call him) was
by Lulu, he began to regale her with his reminiscences of the last
reunion he had attended of the Dream Team, interspersed with memories
of his life 'In The Square Ring' complete with
action replays of decisive victories over Mick McManus, Jackie Pallo,
Kendo Nagasaki and Giant Haystacks, while the girls, full as ever
with zest, vim and vigour, under the eagle-eye of Daphne, began
hauling the documents out of the long-unused natatorium, installed by
a priest whose private passion was long-distance swimming, and
loading them into the capacious hold
of the pantechnicon as Daphne
herself recorded each transfer, leaving Maude and Lulu to revel in the detail of Father Mungo's somewhat sententious testimony; and
while Maude billed and cooed, Lulu oohed and aahed, and Father Mungo
puffed out his chest and offered to teach Lulu the Full-Nelson
and Pitchfork (holds or throws, I got a bit lost here) which
she accepted with suspicious alacrity! prompting Maude, whose only
regular exercise is completing The Scotsman crossword with a
mug of strongly fortified coffee and a cheroot, to enter into the
spirit of me-tooism, asking if the Archbishop would change into a
leotard for the lesson and whether she and Lulu should discard some
of their own clothing also, and Father Mungo's eyes were out lick
organ-stops at the prospect, although he was probably only thinking
of Lulu at that moment!
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