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THE ODDITY OF BART B’S COLOURISED SHADOW

In most regards the Farmhand cohort are perfectly ordinary folk, but it has been remarked, quite often and not altogether flatteringly, that Bart Brassica’s coloured shadow is peculiar. There are a number of theories as to why Bart Brassica has a colour shadow. He claims he had a normal blackish sort of shadow until some fool fiction writer took a Polaroid photo of him, photocopied it and coloured the whole lot it in. Mavis Eggwhistle has been caught messing around with various kinds of coloured cellophane in her shop window and has managed to get a cerise shadow a few times but Granny Egg says she must be colourblind if she thinks that washed out monochrome thing would fool anyone, even a one-eyed farmer.