The Betrayal of Bindy Mackenzie Read Online Free

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    Bindy Mackenzie
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    Bindy takes time from her busy schedule to represent
the school in debating and oratory.
And she’s a fast typist.
    Bindy is never conceited or ‘big-headed’. On the
contrary, when she does well on an exam, she
immediately offers to share the paper around, so that
others can learn from her success.
    Bindy’s voice is like the dawn chorus
of a flock of nightingales.

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    A Memo from Bindy Mackenzie
To:
Toby Mazzerati
From:
Bindy Mackenzie
Subject:
Cane Toads
Time:
Friday, 10.00 am
    Hi Toby,
I believe you chose the animal ‘cane toad’ at the FAD session on Wednesday? I thought you might like to know a few fun facts about yourself:
•
You were introduced to Australia in 1935 to control beetles that were eating sugar cane roots. That was a disaster. You got out of control. Now there are just too many of you.
•
You are poisonous! People have died after eating you in soup.
•
Your poison oozes out of your glands. Also, you squirt people in the face with it.
•
In the mating season, you grow lumps on your fingers which help you hold tightly to female cane toads.
    All the best,
    Bindy
    As Saturday sings and skips along, so Bindy unwinds from her busy week by:
1.
Kmart. Morning shift (7.30–12.30) (Womenswear)
2.
Maths homework
3.
Biology assignment
4.
Reread The Duchess of Malfi
5.
Piano practice
6.
Musicianship preparation
7.
Household tasks (laundry/vacuuming)
8.
Babysitting. Brentwoods (6.30 pm until midnight) (BRING JOHN DONNE)
9.
German translation
10.
Visualisation
11.
Prepare Sunday list of things to do
12.
Go to bed

    FROM THE TRANSCRIPT FILE OF BINDY MACKENZIE
Saturday, 12.45
Castle Towers food court, after work. I sit near Mister Minit, where keys are cut and bracelets are engraved. There is an occasional horrible shrieking sound from Mister Minit. Single lines of conversation float into my hearing.
    A man says to his wife:
And all this is real? Because, you know, it doesn’t seem all that plausible.
    A girl rushes by with a group of friends, concluding a story with the words:
It was a great, big, giant head of cabbage!!

    Here are some Lines from a Book which Caught Brady’s Eye Today . . .
On the etiquette of shopping
    â€˜In inquiring for goods at a store or shop, do not say to the clerk or salesman “I want” such an article, but, “Please show me” such an article, or some other polite form of address . . . It is rude to sneer at and depreciate goods, and exceedingly discourteous to the salesman . . . Whispering in a store is rude. Loud and showy behaviour is exceedingly vulgar.’
    From: Our Deportment, or the Manner, Conduct and Dress of the Most Refined Society; including Forms for Letters, Invitations, etc, etc, Also, Valuable Suggestions on Home Culture and Training by John H. Young (1881), pp 150–151.

    Night Time Musings of Bindy Mackenzie
Monday, 4.30 am
    I have awakened in a feverish state.
    Strange, strange how my heart crashes about like a sneaker in a clothes-drier.
    There are just three days until Wednesday.
    Already, I have written to the Board (step 1), and have begun to expose the poisonous souls of my FAD class (step 2).
    Anyway, I have exposed the poisonous soul of Toby Mazzerati.
    I think that was a success. On Friday, I put his soul in an envelope and stuck it to the outside of his locker.
    Later that day, I saw him leaning against a classroom door. ‘Hey, Bindy,’ he said as I passed by. ‘Thanks for your note.’
    Everything about his words had a careful, uncertain tone. As if he were seated at a piano, trying out a difficult new piece.
    â€˜You’re welcome,’ I said, mysteriously, and I smiled.
    â€˜Uh,’ he said, ‘but, by the way, I didn’t say I was a cane toad. In the FAD class? I didn’t say cane toad.’
    â€˜You didn’t?’ I feigned surprise.
    â€˜No. I said wolverine.’
    I laughed then, a waterfall