Intercepted Signals
Calling all rooks in Wellhead Parish. Urgent. Nimbus, vedette of second squadron, speaking. Scarecrow observed beyond the southern hedgerow, Grounded but mobile, steadily approaching. Evasive action strongly recommended.
Outpost abandoned. Airborne. Message over.
Attention all. Old Thundercloud replying.
Minor emergency. Plan One sufficient : (Half hawthorn height, two seconds to the wingbeat).
Scarecrow identified : Type homo sapiens, Model Mark III, harmless at twenty yards.
The blot upon the landscape now recedes.
Cruise calmly and await a clear horizon.
Stratus the swift, your squadron-leader, calling. Anticipate crepuscular manoeuvres, Follow-my-leader sports and tail-end Charley. Soon we shall glide above the tallest elms, Bathe in the billows of the gusty sky, Dive through the crevices of tumbled air And be uplifted in our element.
Take off. Touch down at Forty Acres. Over.
C. G. INGRAM.
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