Mr. Badger and the Difficult Duchess (7 page)
An extreme excitement of stamp-collectors.
âWell done, Mr Badger,' whispered a grateful Sir Cecil with a wink.
âHappy to be of service, sir.'
Mr Badger took the evening's events in his stride. After all, he
was
the Boubles Grand Hotel's Special Events Manager â and this had certainly been a special event. In fact, the whole day had been special. Mr Badger had a feeling that the kitchen staff would agree.
M
uch later, after Sylvia Smothers-Carruthers had been safely deposited home and tucked into her very own bed, and the Royal Suite had been cleared of pizza boxes, comic books and the three televisions, Mr Badger went home; his work, for today at least, was done.
The Boubles Grand Hotel Royal Suite was ready once more for a royal visitor â hopefully a real one next time.
By the time Mr Badger arrived home, baby Badger and darling daughter Berenice were fast asleep. But not so Mrs Badger.
She was waiting up with hot cocoa and sandwiches to share with her husband.
Mrs Badger was eager to hear about the day's events. And it must be said that Mr Badger took a great delight in relating them to her, for it was not every day that the Philatelic Society Annual Dinner featured a guest as memorable as the Duchess de la Dodo.
A little later, just before he closed his eyes and fell asleep, Mr Badger smiled as he wondered just what he would find in his diary tomorrow morning at the Boubles Grand Hotel.
The End
More Leigh Hobbs books for you to
enjoy from Allen & Unwin
Horrible Harriet
Hooray for Horrible Harriet
4F for Freaks
Freaks Ahoy
Old Tom's Big Book of Beauty
Mr Chicken Goes to Paris
For more details, visit Leigh's website:
www.leighhobbs.com.au
We hope you have enjoyed the
third book in the Mr Badger series.
And don't miss Mr Badger's next
adventure at the Boubles Grand Hotel.
A Little More about the Author
Leigh Hobbs didn't like reading stories very much when he was a child, though he does remember adoring
Kidnapped
and
Treasure Island
.
This may seem a disturbing admission for an author to make but it is not really, because what he
did
like reading were true stories about other people's lives, and books about history. These were what fed his imagination â and in fact continue to do so.
Leigh always wanted to be an artist, so took a special interest in the pictures. Consequently, he was forever drawing pictures of castles, knights, pirates and sailing ships with surprisingly accurate depictions of how a knight dressed or what a castle looked like.
