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Tommy looked blank. What's a flashlight?You don't have flashlights? Jessup said. Jeeze! A cylinder, like, with batteries inside it, and a light bulb behind glass at one end--Tommy's blue eyes glinted dangerously. We have a thing in Scotland that's a cylinder too. Very thin, made of wood, with graphite in the center. We call it a pencil.Jessup hooted. You think we don't have pencils?You think we don't have flashlights? Tommy snapped. That's just American dialect. In the English language they're called torches.Emily said mildly, Actually we're Canadians.

Susan Cooper

Tommy looked blank. What's a flashlight?You don't have flashlights? Jessup said. Jeeze! A cylinder, like, with batteries inside it, and a light bulb behind glass at one end--Tommy's blue eyes glinted dangerously. We have a thing in Scotland that's a cylinder too. Very thin, made of wood, with graphite in the center. We call it a pencil.Jessup hooted. You think we don't have pencils?You think we don't have flashlights? Tommy snapped. That's just American dialect. In the English language they're called torches.Emily said mildly, Actually we're Canadians.

Tags: flashlight, humor, pencil, scotland

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About Susan Cooper

Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is an English author of children's books. She is best known for The Dark Is Rising, a contemporary fantasy series set in England and Wales, which incorporates British mythology such as the Arthurian legends and Welsh folk heroes. For that work, in 2012 she won the lifetime Margaret A. Edwards Award from the American Library Association, recognizing her contribution to writing for teens. In the 1970s two of the five novels were named the year's best English-language book with an "authentic Welsh background" by the Welsh Books Council. In 2024, the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association named her the 40th Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master in recognition of her significant contributions to the literature of science fiction and fantasy.