Clarence
Clarence, our water buffalo, has kept a beady eye over the bookshop for many a long year. It is rumoured that his entire body is the other side of the wall. It is also rumoured that he was smuggled into Scotland by a Victorian man wearing tweed and sporting a dubious moustache. The tales are endless. All we know for sure is that he was rescued from a Leith lane sale by Bert and is now our mascot and resident philosopher. If Clarence could speak he would say:
‘Being shot and stuffed was not the afterlife I’d hoped for. It seems to be going on for rather a long time.’
‘Don’t you dare use my horns to hang bags on.’
‘This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel and a barbaric ritual to those who have been on the wrong end of a shot gun.’
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- That should have been WelcomE @redbrickchapel
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- Bitch wanted to produce puppies from bookshop dog Struan the collie - see pictures - http://bit.ly/azXJdP
- Little old lady just brought in "Dosworth" 1st ed. by Sinclair Lewis signed & dedicated "Dear Vita & Harold, all our love - Sinclair Lewis"
- Clarence believes that nasty, grubby,foul-mouthed men who smoke in our doorway ought to have a bucket of water thrown over them. I agree.
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