Our Robert’s life has altered utterly
With child and wife, more responsibility
To change the ways of a carefree bear
And freight his days with wear and tear.
Robert’s head might have been spinning but the well-ordered life of Woodvilleshire County Council was going on just the same. As he approached the large revolving doors, he remembered that the place was like a big church. He lingered in awkward reverence, then slid through to reception, using up some more time admiring the portraits in oils hanging in dim corporation light around the walls. There were no bears, but he did find a pig - Alderman Mango, who saw through the modernisation of the Towns drainage system in 1904.
He went upstairs to the social work department. There was no one about, then Ted appeared with some papers. ‘H
