The Talking Trees

The Talking TreesThere were Four of them in the same class at The Red Abbey, all under 15. They met every night in Mrs. Coffey's sweetshop at the top of the Victoria Road to play the fruit machine, smoke fags and talk about girls. Not that they really talked about them--they just winked, leered, nudged one another, laughed, grunted and groaned about them, or said things like "See her legs?" "Yaroosh!" "Wham!" "Ouch!" "Ooof!" or "If only, if...