Sheep magazine Archive 2: issues 10-17

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Us kids ran alongside shouting and pointing at Mr Van as he
crawled, staying under the car. As the men realised there was a
problem they looked to Mr Du Plessis for guidance. Annoyed at
this strange twist, several ploys were enacted to rid the car of its
crawling ‘passenger’, Mr Du nodded his head back down the road
and the men quickly did a back step. Unfortunately Mr Van had
been watching their legs and whichever way Mr Du sent the men
he managed to stay under the car. We kids, and now it seemed
the whole roads’ residents, watched the choreographed moves
in amazement, deceptively the car looked light as a feather as it
floated about 2 feet off the road … we could see Mr Van darting
this way and that, his knees red with blood, his face even redder.
How would this end, the men had become enraged at Mr Van’s
actions and were frustratedly wasting time and their energy in trying
to expel him from his position beneath his car when, after all, they
were trying to do him a favour … the situation just could not go
on. We could only think Mr Van had convinced himself that his
neighbours would soon tire and drop his car, so he was trying to
make it impossible for the men to put it down (with him underneath
and all).
SHEEP IN THE ROAD : NUMBER 13