Digger Field

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Authors: Damian Davis
bouncing across the water. It was the most glorious peg ever.
    ‘Seventeen!’ Tearley shouted. ‘That’s so pro.’
    I tried to be as cool about it as possible. ‘Yeah, not bad for a warm-up.’
    We spent the afternoon trying to outdo it. Neither of us could. I’ve got to admit though, Tearley is pretty good, for a girl.
    ‘You’re better than Wriggler,’ I told her.
    ‘That’s not hard,’ she said.
    ‘Yeah,’ I laughed, ‘he’s hopeless. I only let him hang around because he’s got a video camera.’
    ‘Yeah,’ she said, ‘the only world record he’d get is for being unco.’
    It ended up being a pretty good day. Tearley is okay. Maybe she can take Wriggler’s place in the world championship.

CHAPTER 13
DAY 12: Wednesday
    My skims: 0
    Wriggler’s skims: 0 (He’s still not talking to me.)
    Tearley’s skims: 0 (She’s been disqualified.)
    Days to becoming world champion: 27 (The pressure’s on.)
    Money made for tinnie: a vomitcovered $10 note. ($725 to go.)
    I was feeling pretty good about the restart of the world record attempt. And I’d decided Tearley was right about Mr Black just being a random dude hanging around the river instead of going to work. My plan was to go to the river as early as I could and put in a really big day, to try and make up for all the lost days. I was on the verge of breaking the big 2-0 skims.
    I was going to swing by Tearley’s house on the way to the river and see if she wanted to come. But Dean did it again. He left me to look after Squid. As soon as Mum went to work he picked up his surfboard.
    ‘See ya, sucker,’ he said. ‘Look after the grommit.’
    ‘I’m going to tell,’ I shouted at him. ‘Get back here this instant.’
    To be honest I shouted it to him when he was already down the street a bit. I wasn’t keen on getting another thonging.
    I could feel the world record slipping away, again.
    I had no idea what to do with the giantheaded Squid. He was standing there with a great big stupid smile on his face. He expected me to come up with some way to entertain him. Then an idea hit me like a bottle of wee between the shoulderblades.
    Squid’s a kid, right? Kids like to cook. So I pulled out some flour, sugar and butter and told him to start making biscuits. We were going to have a biscuit stall. I’d make a fortune. Just because Wrigs and I weren’t friends any more, it didn’t mean I wasn’t going to get the tinnie.
    I stood Squid on a stool by the kitchen bench and he went to it like a demon, sifting, mixing and baking. He could hardly see over the top of the bowl but that didn’t stop him. He just climbed onto the kitchen bench so he could mix the ingredients better.
    This was the most perfect scheme ever. Someone else does all the work and you make all the money. Wrigs would have loved it.
    Squid was having the best day of his life. When he finished baking the biscuits, I set him up at a table on the footpath in front of the house.
    ‘I’ll give you ten cents for every one you sell,’ I told him.
    ‘Great,’ he said through a mouthful of biscuit.
    I put a sign up that said: ‘Digs’ homemade biscuits—fifty cents each’.
    ‘That’s the third biscuit I’ve seen you eat,’ I said to Squid. ‘You owe me a dollar-fifty.’ I pointed at the sign.
    ‘That’s not fair.’
    ‘You only have to sell fifteen and you’ll have earnt enough to pay me back.’
    I went back to the house. I was going to ring Wrigs and tell him about the plan. Even though Tearley was right when she said Wrigs is a wuss, he has been my best mate forever. When he answered the phone, I opened with my best line.
    ‘Hey, Wrigs, it’s so hot I heard a pig complaining about sweating like a human.’
    Nothing came back. Okay, he was out of practice. It’d been a few days.
    ‘It’s so hot I just saw a tree asking a dog to wee on it,’ I said.
    Nothing.
    Then, ‘What do you want, Digger?’
    ‘I just wanted to see if you felt like coming around.’
    ‘No, I’m

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