Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page193 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Chapter 25<\/strong> Yesterday, Benet arrived in town.<\/p>\n The word spread like wildfire. It was impossible to keep it from the kids, because Rory, TomBaker\u2019s eight year old son, helps out making the time machines. As soon as Rory knew, all of his friends knew, and then the whole of Lancaster knew.<\/p>\n Around Jackanory Square the shops and caf\u00e9s have been preparing for the influx. Betty knows that the Find Thyme Caf\u00e9 will have more guests than usual. Julia and Marcus are setting out extra tables and chairs in front of Magnum Opus, just as the Colonel and Miss Gibson arrive. DocDan is wheeling out a small trolley from the Central Library, bringing a long rope and The Stump<\/em>.<\/p>\n He\u2019s not a doctor! Doc is short for \u201cdocument\u201d.<\/p>\n DocDan is the assistant librarian and he knows the library inside out. If somebody needs a particular book or document, DocDan will find it quicker than anybody else. Half of the time he doesn\u2019t even need to look up the index. He was nicknamed DocDan by the real doctors who work at the research institute next door.<\/p>\n \u201cGood to see you Benet!\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cDan! How are you?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m fine, how are you?\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cFrazzled. As usual!\u201d<\/p>\n That\u2019s Benet\u2019s standard response. On a good day he\u2019s frazzled, and on a bad day he\u2019s double plus frazzled. It\u2019s only when story time is over that he lightens up. If anything doesn\u2019t go quite right he always blames his old frazzled brain. If it all goes well, he\u2019ll claim to have succeeded, in spite of his befrazzlement<\/em>.<\/p>\n According to Benet, that\u2019s a genuine English word! If he\u2019s challenged he just says, \u201cwell it is now! The English language is fluid you know! Always changing!\u201d<\/p>\n Previous<\/a> – Book1 Page193 \u2013 Next<\/a><\/p>\n Previous – Book1 Page193 \u2013 Next Chapter 25 Jackanory Square Yesterday, Benet arrived in town. The word spread like wildfire. It was impossible to keep it from the kids, because Rory, TomBaker\u2019s eight year old son, helps out making the time machines. As soon as Rory knew, all of his friends knew, and then the … Continue reading “Chapter 25 Jackanory Square193”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1653"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1654,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1653\/revisions\/1654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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