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Friday 14 December 2012

Many Happy Returns - But Not For Some!


   Martha, Mrs Butterworth's personal housemaid, answering the door to a raggedy man, looking more like a tramp than the previous occupier of the house! Martha gives the man short shrift, and closes the door in his face!
   Now it is most probable that when Mrs Butterworth left London for the Village, in order to take up her position of No.2, she took her housemaid Martha with her. Then living in the annex of the Green Dome, Martha here would not suffer the Butler too much, and would soon have our diminutive friend ousted, from position and home!
   Now Martha looks down upon our friend No.6, She seems to have a severe and no nonsense attitude. But I guess a spell in the Village has mellowed her "outlook" somewhat. For it would seem that Martha-No.36, has been left behind in the village, after her mistress, Mrs Butterworth, has long since departed the village after her term of office was up.
     For the next time we met with Martha, is at a time when she encounters our friend No.6 for a second time.
 She seems to have a dependency on sweets, her one weakness, or a weakness placed there by the use of conditioning and hypnosis treatment at the hospital? But even her previous hardness towards No.6 does not go against her, perhaps No.6 feels pity for this poor soul, left abandoned in the Village by her mistress. So feeling sorry for her, No.6 buys No.26-Martha, a bag of candy, perhaps for old times sake.

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2 comments:

  1. Arthur Butterworth.14 December 2012 at 21:38

    The number on her badge looks more like 36 to me.

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    1. Hello Arthur,

      Well I would tend to agree with you, because for years and years I've thought her number was 36. Indeed when I wrote the piece of blog I had the number 36. However since I looked at the picture from a re-mastered DVD I'm not so sure, and then changed the number to 26. And because of your comment, this morning I enlarged and zoomed in on the badge, and to me now it looks like 26, but of course I could be wrong.

      Kind regards
      David
      BCNU

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