What happened in the carriage - b and l join in.

Drawing could be b and l 
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Furthur adventures across the sea - 

Upon reaching that lovely green land they boarded a night train heading South. 
Finding a couple of seats in the saloon car they joined a great company there. 
As the train rattled and rocked its way down the quickening night coast line,  
the sky grew a sunset of orange and green tinged with the amber of lights from 
the receding town, and the windows reflected back the faces and bodies of the 
crowded carriage.

Soon the company began to warm up and proceeded with the ordering of the little 
bottles of the dark beer with the creamy frothy foam.

L and B were no laggers in this task. The sound in the saloon grew.

The bottles increased and the empties began to fill the little Formica topped 
folding tables. A rolling wave of feeling gradually imparted its charms upon 
the great company there. Composed mainly of men, some women and the occasional 
child, they smoked the tipped cigarettes, drank from the bottles and the little 
plastic cups. The air thicker with the pungent smoke, and louder with the 
animated chatter of the voices, who in the main were set resolutely in their 
unity of purpose i.e. namely: the adventure of the night, the rain beating upon 
the steamy windows, the clank of the bottles, the increase in the decibels, the 
rocking into the night, the rolling of the company, the chatter, the smoke, the 
emphasis on the ideas being explained, then: the singing of the songs along 
with the transistor radio, the beautiful melody and blending of the voices in 
clever harmony, the increasing uproar rising, rising always moving along and 
raising semitone by semitone in pitch until at the apogee thus: the whole 
carriage singing together and swaying in their roistering and charming venture 
on the puff-puff as it sidled its way through the little green fields, now dark 
as pitch, and the great green foamy spumy sea to the side and rocky shoreline 
the caroming waves and lighthouses sheep walls cottages villages small towns 
occasional cars with the headlights attached painting in the rainy air.



Bron sang with the others. Leonardo sang too, and as the din rose and the 
carriage warmed he took off his great sheepskin coat, rolled his sleeves and 
ordered more bottles. 

B smoked furiously and gloriously the ciggies. Empty packets lay strewn around 
with the bottles. She folded the silver paper inner wrappers into small surreal 
shapes and placed them in the outer cellophane wrappers like miniature 
sculptures within mini-vitrines. The number of them grew on their table top. 

They sang ‘and when I come home to you, I find the things that you do, will 
make me feel all right! When I’m home everything seems to be righ-t, right!’



B turned with a quizzical expression to Leo, shouting above the din, ‘kinopfia? 
Snapdragon? Or is it lilacs and crocuses?’

‘We are the lily of the valley, carnation and the lupins all in one night’ he 
replied, and pressed his great bony nose to the steamed window, creating an 
imprint there. 



Later they arrived in the morning town station. Disembarking they hurried to 
their bed and breakfast and lay upon the springy mattress with the ornamental 
and pink spreads beside the little side tables and the little reading lamps to 
fall into coma and a snoring sleep fit for kings and queens and knights and 
artists.



Dreaming deeply they walked past great blue stones, monoliths covered in  
runes. Mossy dells with gnarled bog oak and silver birch. Streams with clover, 
celandine and buttercups.

A transparent white cat licked its paw and fished for minnows in a pool. A 
chaffinch flew in slow motion across the bedroom through the dusty sunlight the 
curtains billowed the tap of twigs on the window and the ornate iron doorstop 
with the lambs and clouds.

They slept on with the unflinching steadiness of sculptures and  breathed with 
a bovine breath in the morning fields.


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