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The Champion of the World
ALL DAY, IN BETWEEN serving customers, we had been crouching1 over the table in the office
of the filling-station, preparing the raisins3. They were plump and soft and swollen4 from being
soaked in water, and when you nicked them with a razor-blade the skin sprang open and the jelly
stuff inside squeezed out as easily as you could wish.
But we had a hundred and ninety-six of them to do altogether and the evening was nearly upon
us before we had finished.
‘Don’t they look marvellous!’ Claud cried, rubbing his hands together hard. ‘What time is it,
Gordon?’
‘Just after five.’
Through the window we could see a station-wagon pulling up at the pumps with a woman at the
wheel and about eight children in the back eating ice-creams.
‘We ought to be moving soon,’ Claud said. ‘The whole thing’ll be a washout if we don’t arrive
before sunset, you realize that.’ He was getting twitchy now. His face had the same flushed and
pop-eyed look it got before a dog-race or when there was a date with Clarice in the evening.
We both went outside and Claud gave the woman the number of gallons she wanted. When she
had gone, he remained standing5 in the middle of the driveway squinting6 anxiously up at the sun
which was now only the width of a man’s hand above the line of trees along the crest7 of the ridge8
on the far side of the valley.
‘All right,’ I said. ‘Lock up.’
He went quickly from pump to pump, securing each nozzle in its holder9 with a small padlock.
‘You’d better take off that yellow pullover,’ he said.
‘Why should I?’
‘You’ll be shining like a
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