Faceache story arc No. 12 was a two-part
story which appeared in BUSTER issues cover-dated August 4 and 11, 1979.
Faceache doesn’t know what a birds’ dawn
chorus is, so Mr. Snipe tells him to stay up with him in the grounds all night
to await the dawn so that he can hear it first-hand and write an essay on the
whole beautiful experience.
Anxious to get some sleep, Faceache decides he can
scrunge the dawn chorus forward a few hours.
He creeps away behind Mr. Snipe’s
back and scrunges his neck to treetop level and then some trillers, cheepers,
chirrupers, chirpers, warblers, tweeters, twitterers and a carefree cuckooeee
just for luck…
He starts with the first sweet cheep-cheep of his fake dawn
chorus. Enchanted by the beauty of the bird-song, Mr. Snipe leaps in the direction of the sound and discovers Faceache’s
twist. Mr. Snipe climbs up Feceache’s neck and tells him to unscrunge this
instant for a “Guinness Book of Records” thrashing.
Faceache obeys:
...and Mr.
Snipe crashes down from the heights of Faceache’s neck.
Faceache leaves the
dazed Mr. Snipe with his own little built-in dawn chorus and goes back to
school to catch-up on some sleep. At dawn the real dawn chorus starts and
Faceache can’t sleep because of the noise.
Characters are
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