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{{a|opcoboone|}}<div style="text-indent: 20px;">When [[Opco Boone|Opco]], Algy and George filed into the ''Defence Against Indemnities'' classroom, their regular teacher, Professor Cavalier, was nowhere to be seen. Instead a stout middle-aged management consultant sat at her desk, peering intently through a monocle at a clockwork contraption installed upon it. The machine was labelled “RISK TAXONOMISER”. A badger on her lapel announced her as Professor Skank. As the class settled in she gleefully twiddled the dials on the machine’s fascia.
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<div style="text-indent: 20px;">When [[Opco Boone|Opco]], Algy and George filed into the ''Defence Against Indemnities'' classroom, their regular teacher, [[Columbia Cavalier|Professor Cavalier]], was nowhere to be seen. Instead a stout middle-aged management consultant sat at her desk, peering intently through a monocle at a clockwork contraption installed upon it. The machine was labelled “RISK TAXONOMISER”. A badger on her lapel announced her as Professor Skank. As the class settled in she gleefully twiddled the dials on the machine’s fascia.


“Good Morning, Class!” she beamed. I am Professor Skank. I shall be taking ''Defence Against Indemnities'' for the rest of term.
“Good Morning, Class!” she beamed. I am Professor Skank. I shall be taking ''Defence Against Indemnities'' for the rest of term.
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“Ma’am, where is Professor Cavalier?” asked Algy.
“Ma’am, where is Professor Cavalier?” asked Algy.


Columbia Cavalier was the school’s usual Defence against Indemnities teacher. She was something of a legend in her own life. Now aged well over eighty, and frequently forgetful and prone to inappropriate outbursts may have been a crusty old malcontent and a dope fiend, but the children respected him for his practical and direct manner. They forgave him the occasional recess to toot medicinal opium — he needed it, he claimed, to alleviate the pain of injuries sustained at the Battle of Bretton Woods — and in any case it made the remainder of the class a whole lot more languid.




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