The Idyll

It's really hot in here

Are you going all the way to Abilene?

Yes

It is still a few hours, isn't it?

It's about three and half, I think

I thought this was the fast train

Do you think we... we can open the windows any wider?

I don't think that we can, no

Sheep

Have you ever been to Abilene before?

Yeah, I've been there a few times

I'm going there for work

I'm a wet nurse

Very nice place, I think

...to live, it looks very pretty

I have to...

Are you a ?

No

No, I'm from Blondel

Ohhh

- Ohhh. - Nice place to come from

"There was a man who came from Blondel"

"And drunk from a cask like a humpback whale"

That's me

"He lost his wife in a bottle of beer"

What rhymes with "beer"?

Sorry

Fear

Oh no... dear!

"He lost his wife in a bottle of beer"

and something, "oh dear"

Do you fish?

No

And I've never been a fisherman

Pity

I hear they make good husbands

No, they're not very faithful ones, in Blondel

I've never been there

I always wanted to go

What's that festival that you have there every year?

How it's called?

The Eating of the Bears

Do you have children?

No

Mine are at home in , with my husband

Horse

I really miss them

Do you work in Abeline, too?

The bridge

And you don't fish?

I'm going there tomorrow, for the opening

I thought it was open already?

It kind of is, but they're going to lead an elephant

across it tomorrow, for publicity

I don't see the point of elephants

Wasn't someone struck by lightning whilst it was being built?

They did

That's why they think it's bad luck to cross it

Well, maybe it is

It certainly was for the chap who got struck

I believe in luck, do you?

No

No, that's why they're using an elephant

Do you believe in elephants then?