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“Mmmm,' hummed Mum. 'What's it called?'
'Butch,' Dad told her.
'Butch!' Mum repeated. 'It doesn't sound like a small, docile, house-trained dog to me”
― Gervase Phinn, A Load of Old Tripe

“He could send a glass eye to sleep.”
― Gervase Phinn, At the Captain's Table

“Just one more, before we get on with our writing,’ said the teacher, turning to a large, friendly-looking boy with cropped hair and large ears. ‘Scott’s from America, Mr Phinn. All the way from Tennessee. Come along then, Scott, what was your accident?’ ‘Well, I guess the worst accident I had was when I was riding my bike on the sidewalk – ’ ‘We call it “pavement” over here, Scott,’ interrupted the teacher. ‘Oh yeah, pavement, and I came to this slope. I was pedalling so fast I just could not stop. I put on my brakes but I carried on skidding and sliding until I hit one of those great white things in the middle of the road – ’ ‘Bollards,’ said the teacher. ‘Straight up, miss,’ said the boy. ‘I really did.”
― Gervase Phinn, Up and Down in the Dales

“Is there something else?"
"Well, there is actually. I can't get out of the chair. I'm stuck!”
― Gervase Phinn, The Little Village School

“He watched the children in the small playground, running, shouting, laughing, chasing each other. They were so full of life and energy, and he felt suddenly very lonely.”
― Gervase Phinn

“can’t get too excited about”
― Gervase Phinn, Up and Down in the Dales

“The room echoed then with the Yorkshireman’s war cry: ‘’Ow much?’ roared Mr Greenwood and his son in unison.”
― Gervase Phinn, The School at the Top of the Dale

“English?’ I asked.”
― Gervase Phinn, Up and Down in the Dales

“knee”
― Gervase Phinn, Up and Down in the Dales

“Yes, indeed, I’m so much looking”
― Gervase Phinn, Up and Down in the Dales

“Tha know where thy are we' ferrets. Ya never know
where ya are we' lasses”
― Gervase Phinn, Trouble at the Little Village School

“there was”
― Gervase Phinn, Up and Down in the Dales

“A bad leak? Sure it'd baptize you!”
― Gervase Phinn, All These Lonely People

“down”
― Gervase Phinn, The Heart of the Dales

“into TROUBLE AT THE LITTLE VILLAGE SCHOOL”
― Gervase Phinn, The Little Village School

“little clippings from my”
― Gervase Phinn, Up and Down in the Dales

“We were to have Mrs Wigglesworth to speak at the meeting. She’s the psychic. She had to pull out because of some unforeseen circumstances.”
― Gervase Phinn, Tales Out of School

“his professional”
― Gervase Phinn, Up and Down in the Dales

“posh”
― Gervase Phinn, The Little Village School

“I’m sorry?’ I said, startled.”
― Gervase Phinn, Head Over Heels in the Dales

“earth”
― Gervase Phinn, A Lesson in Love

“School might be closing”
― Gervase Phinn, Up and Down in the Dales

“spoil the sense of elation I”
― Gervase Phinn, Up and Down in the Dales

“room. ‘She was very beautiful,”
― Gervase Phinn, A Lesson in Love

“Docendo discimus.’ ‘I’m afraid you will have to translate for me,’ Tom told him. “‘We learn by teaching”,”
― Gervase Phinn, A Class Act