The Grub-And-Stakers Pinch A Poke - Plot & Excerpts
Dittany hadn’t expected such a reaction from what she herself had considered a rather commonplace remark. Osbert, Archie, and Daniel all gaped at her as though she’d produced a live panther from inside her cream puff. “Well, it’s obvious enough, isn’t it?” She scooped up the last of her fudge sauce but refrained from licking her fork because she was out in company. “The Scottsbeck Players got first crack at the competition. Desdemona Portley says they put on a thing about Lord Selkirk and the Hudson’s Bay Company that their leading man wrote, directed, and acted the part of Selkirk in. She must have meant Hellespont because she said all His Lordship did was stalk around in one fancy suit after another, ranting about the massacre at Seven Oaks and the high cost of beaver skins. Dessie said the best part of the whole show was when one of the trappers pretending to make a portage got his head caught inside a birchbark canoe.” “Too bad I missed it,” said Daniel. “Doesn’t sound to me as if you missed much,”
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