Saturday 7 February 2015

Scribal errors

The little boy’s grandma returned from Poland having scoured the place for a suitable toy to bring back with her. I’m told that everything was cheap plastic ‘western’ tat.
In the end she got hold of some properish wooden Russian dolls, which on closer inspection turn out to be the seven dwarves (claimed by the region around Krakow as their own). Someone has carefully painted on the names of Disney’s seven dwarves near the bases. Gloriously, however, these names seem to have evolved as they have been handed down from doll-painter to doll-painter’s apprentice, so the set now reads:
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Sleepy
Grimpy
Basheol
Happy
Sneezy
Dog

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