Alligator Playground

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Alan Sillitoe. Alligator Playground

Alligator Playground. Alan Sillitoe

Bibliographical Note

Table of Contents

ONE

TWO

THREE

FOUR

FIVE

A Respectable Woman

Beggarland

Ron Delph and His Fight with King Arthur

Ivy

Holiday

A Matter of Teeth

Battlefields

Call Me Sailor

Alan Sillitoe

By the Same Author

Copyright

About the Publisher

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A collection of short stories

Beggarland published in Woman and Home

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Poppies were worried by wasps of gold and black, and a small aeroplane lazied up from the coast. ‘I see what you mean.’

He put an arm around her. ‘The “Introduction and Allegro”, what else?’ – and kissed her, a slow easing of the tongue into her mouth. Her body burned with the heat of the day, and there was sweat on her upper lip. The kiss was brief, could have lasted longer it was so delicious. She held his hand as they walked, breath quickened and not altogether from exertion. A rabbit zig-zagged out of their way. ‘I know a short cut through the wood.’

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