Chapter Three
Tongue Twisters
"Okay these aren't funny until you get someone to say them fast out loud and then watch them trip over their own tongue"
Blissful Brenda blithely backed Britain
Vera valued the valley violets
She sat in solitude and isolation sighing and singing sad songs
Hetty and Harry hurried homeward to hasten from the howling Hurricane
Theresa tried on twenty three silver thimbles
The heiress found the heirloom haphazardly hanging from the high shelf
As I went into the Garden
I saw five brave maids
Sitting on five broad beds
Braiding Broad Braids
I said to those five brave maids
Sitting on five broad beds
Braiding broads braids
"Braid broad braids, brave maids"
Katie quailed after quarrel at quarter to one with Queenie and Cleo
The Lieutenant's Lady loved liqueurs and likes to linger late with lots of crème de menthe
Betty Brown blinked and brandished the broom at the big Labrador
"Lavender didn't ring right, so we'd played around with names until came up with Betty"
Sally's Selfish selling Shellfish, so Sally's Shellfish seldom sell.
Colin Cuddled Connie in the car and caught his camera on the clutch
"Hey Colin, Who's is this Connie" Fred nudged Colin