The Ballad Of Desmond Kale (2005) - Plot & Excerpts
The celebration had a theme of English pastoral glee in which came musical and spoken poem recitals, and a choice of old-time games: skittles and shove halfpenny, leapfrog, blind man’s buff, hunt the slipper, hot cockles and snapdragon so that children could learn how things were in the youth of their parents and those past youth could do some remembering on their feet. Now there was a violent and abrupt Punch and Judy show performed by the Misses Stanton and Josephs, Ivy and Leah — much beating with a stick upon a soft rag head, followed by a song from Titus Stanton, native boy tenor, about the care of Jesus for a sparrow’s fall. Stanton stood before them lacking only his whip to pass for circus master supreme; dressed in frock coat, starched Geneva collar, and wearing a broad-brimmed black shovel hat, curved up at the sides with a projection back and front. He was so tight and lumpy in his breeches, that when he flipped his coat aside a stallion would be envious of his purse. ‘There are no sparrows in Titus’s country,’ he said, after Titus’s applause.
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