The Adventures of The Wabbit - Il Comandante Coniglio
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Thursday, May 01, 2014
Pt 4: Jenny and the Laundry List
Jenny looked around to see if she had
complete attention then tilted her pirate hat forward at a jaunty angle and
looked at her audience. The friends
leaned forward on their seats with eager faces and waited for her to explain
how Rabbit Jenny remembered everything she saw in the night. Jenny the Pirate began again. "Late at night, when Jenny was going to sleep,
she curled up and tried to recall everything she had witnessed in the docks. Then
one by one she attached each event to a piece
of washing." Pirate Jenny stopped and smiled grimly. "Jenny knew all about washing. Every morning at the crack of dawn
she was forced to launder all the soiled clothes of the cruel hotel guests.
There was so much to do that her paws were raw-red by the time she served
breakfast. But at bed time reverie, her mind floated and laundered what she’d seen on the docks. She first gave the laundry very special names for all
the dubious exchanges she had witnessed. Then she designated a garment for each
of the people involved - and if she didn’t know who they were, she invented a name them. As she imagined folding clothes and putting them away, she
allocated to each of these people a fitting punishment. In the eye of her
imagination she could see layers of garments - ironed, folded and named - rising
to the top of a basket. Then as the stack of freshly laundered washing became
ever higher, she willed the basket to suddenly
fall. It was only then - at the precise moment when garments spilled onto ground - that Rabbit Jenny smiled and drifted into sleep...”