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BALLET ON THE BEACH
Not to be outdone by the high-jinks of the twirlers and flippers who pose
for our photographer, Ashley Fargnoli shows some mean ballet moves
PHOTOGRAPHS BY BRIAN MCMAHON
HAVE they no manners? In my day,
which was a Monday, I recall, and
hot and sunny, though the month
and indeed decade escape me totally, as
does the reason why I recall I was wearing
a pair of velvet loon pants, though I am
sure it was for perfectly sound motives.
Well, in my day, a gent could go walking
down the street in his Sunday best and
not be treated as an exhibit in the world
famous Madame Tussauds Waxwork
Museum in London.
There I was, out for my Sunday constitutional,
dressed as always in my spats,
tweed suit and with a jaunty titfer with a
peacock feather in the brim, while Young
Albert trotted alongside in his matching
tweed doggy coat and his cone. The cone
is admittedly unfortunate, and came about
after he was pecked on the ear by a seagull
he had brought down in mid dive. I think
possibly his reflexes, once tiger-fast, are
slowing. Certainly the look he gave me
when the injury was inflicted was one of
some embarrassment.
Obviously, as his friend and a gentleman
I looked the other way and whisted
a favourite old tune of mine from The
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THE OLD FOGEY
THOSE GOOD OLD CAPE MAY DAYS... BY JACKSON D’CATUR
Great War (“Knees Up, Mother Brown,
or You Won’t See My Yukelele”) while he
dispatched the seagull. Anyway, the peck
necessitated a trip to the vet, an old friend
of mine and fellow member of The Cape
May General Lee Volunteers. We chatted
about the old favorites – how Gettysburg
might have come out differently, why
Yankees are by nature morally unsound
and how many paces a chap should pace
when dueling before turning and firing at
one’s opponent.
Anyway, I digress. Albert’s ear needed
to be freed from his incessant scratching,
so the vet put a fetching plastic cone
around his neck, giving him something
of the appearance of an ice cream cone.
As if that was not bad enough – and he
is as unhappy as you might imagine – we
were strolling along the boardwalk when
suddenly a Shoebie of alarmingly obese
proportions stepped in our path and took
a photograph. He distinctly said “Gee!”
which marked him as a Yankee to boot.
I, of, course instantly rapped him over
the knuckles with my silver-topped walking
cane and Albert made a game attempt
to savage his ankles, though sadly the cone
acted as a barrier and the obese Shoebie
looked like he had stepped in a wastepaper
bin as he ran off down the street with
Albert and his cone attached to his foot.
The damage has been done though – a
part of my soul has been stolen and I fear
any day soon I will see myself on the cover
of Newsweek, something that has not happened
since that incident in 1945 with
Stalin. But enough of that here and now.
Jackson D’Catur
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