Beware the Dog : Roald Dahl [14 of 32]

• He lay listening to the sound of its engines. It was a long way away. I wonder what it is, he thought. Let me see if I can place it.
• Suddenly he jerked his head sharply to one side. Anyone who has been bombed can tell the noise of a Junkers 88.
• They can tell most other German bombers for that matter, but especially a Junkers 88. The engines seem to sing a duet.
• There is a deep vibrating bass voice and with it there is a high pitched tenor.
• It is the singing of the tenor which makes the sound of a JU-88 something which one cannot mistake.
• He lay listening to the noise, and he felt quite certain about what it was. But where were the sirens, and where the guns?
• That German pilot certainly had a nerve coming near Brighton alone in daylight.