Page 27 - Lulu and Bob in Verbo City

Bob, too, believed the deck was stacked against them. But they
had youth on their side: just as an old person was more likely to lose
balance and fall, surely their uncle would be the first to make a slip of
the tongue. Or did experience count for something in surviving this
ordeal? He turned over his first card.
“Susan’s shocking shoes and stockings.” He tried not to look at
the picture. It bore an uncanny resemblance to his sister. “Susan’s
shocking shoes and stockings. Susan’s shocking shoes and
stockings.”

Lulu was still masticating on the unfairness of it all when it
became her turn. She wanted to complain, to appeal to Bunster’s
vestigial sense of justice tempered with mercy. But she bit her tongue.
That would cause her team instantly to lose, with no mulligan. This
was psychological warfare, not simply verbal dexterity!
“Hasty pastry tasters praised a pricy pasty.” That pictured pie sure
looked good; it had been a long time since lunch. “Hasty pastry
tasters praised a pricy pasty. Hasty pastry tasters praised a pricy
pasty.”

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