Chapter 30

What Was in the Yard

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It was four feet by three and it weighed a hundred and ten pounds and it had been in a rack in a shed outside Braintree since March 2021, and it had a bell on it, painted in 1974 by a man called Ron, and the paint had gone the particular green that only happens over about forty years.

THE BELL — FREE HOUSE — EST. 1893