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In our town, if you coughing in the TRADITIONAL the chemist up at the Town Hall contains the bottle of coughing mixture wrapped up and looking forward to you.' And nobody in the town provides such a wealth of scrumptious gossip as 'Noisy' Brackett and his partner Sally. Refusing to pay her expenses, running after her errant husband about the countryside in fast cars, setting fire to the heart and soul of Bob, the neighborhood baker, Sally is a gloriously raffish number of fun. In these three linked novellas Bob relates how Sally finally paid his profile, how Noisy acquired off a motoring charge by sneezing, stole a case of stuffed birds from his own house, and barricaded himself in a cottage with a cardboard Argentinean air-hostess to foil Sally's quest. Pritchett's effervescent love of funny, his gift for storytelling and dialogue, his ardent affinity for the seedier, droller goings-on of modern society, have never showed to better gain than in these light-hearted tales. Victor Sawdon Pritchett (1900-1997) was born over a toyshop in 1900 and, much to his everlasting distaste, was named after Queen Victoria. A writer and critic, his is broadly respected to be one of the better short story authors of all time, with the unusual ability to fully capture the incredible strangeness of everyday life. He passed on in 1997.
