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19/7/76: of cars and kegs and doubtful legs.(Fictional work)
RECOUNTED IN HIS civilised and cheerful growl, this evening Alec Hope described for me a ream he had involving myself, Kevin Hart and David Campbell. Together we drove along a country road in ADH's white station wagon, the back filled with kegs of beer and other provisions. Our destination was in general terms "the country", which may have meant DC's property, and this was where we intended to picnic on our supplies. Alec was at the wheel.
We became lost. Not long after discovering this, we found the car was ascending a hill where the gradient increased until the incline was so steep that the vehicle threatened to topple backwards. ADH managed to turn us around (at this point in the narrative he performed a hand gesture suggestive of turning a horse or a bicycle) and the car rolled to the bottom of the slope.
"What shall we do now?" asked DC dispiritedly.
"Never fear," replied Alec. "You see that house set into the hill over there?" and he indicated a building wedged into the cliff. "Well I know a place just above it."
Meanwhile, it seems, Gould had absented himself from the dream.
Hope, Hart and Campbell trooped over to the dwelling, and ADH climbed up to the house-above-the-house by means of a convenient ladder. DC followed him, laden with a keg. On the point of reaching the top, the burly poet missed his foothold and ...
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