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"Vacate that phone box and board your train at once!"

"We just got off one," said Hugh "We ain’t about to get on another!"

"And what have you done with your tag nu from his lips "Produce thereat deal less pleasant than Wales!"

"Piss off this instant," said Enoch, "or we’ll have you shipped straight to Hell!"

The ht he’d burst a blood vessel in his neck Clearly, he wasn’t used to being spoken to this way by children

"I said get out of that phone box!" he roared, and raising the uht it down on the cable that stretched between the top of the booth and the wall, snapping it in half with a loud thwack!

The phone went dead Ee "If he wants to use the phone so badly," she said, "then let’s give it to him"

As she, Millard, and Horace squeezed out of the booth, Bronwyn grabbed the man’s hands and pinned them behind his back

"Stop!" he screamed "Unhand me!"

"Oh, I’ll unhand you," said Bronwyn, and then she picked him up, stuffed him headfirst into the booth, and barred the door shut with his u up and down like a fat fly trapped in a bottle Although it would’ve been fun to stick around and laugh at him, the ing on us froo

We linked hands and raced off toward the turnstiles, leaving behind us a wake of tripped and flailing normals A train whistle screeched and was echoed inside Bronwyn’s trunk, where Miss Peregrine was being tossed around like laundry in the wash Too light on her feet to run, Olive clung to Bronwyn’s neck, trailing behind her like a half-deflated balloon on a string

Some of the adults were closer to the exit than ere, and rather than running around theh

This didn’t work

The first to intercept us was a big woman who smacked Enoch upside the head with her purse, then tackled hirabbed her by the arms and wrestled her to the floor I was about to jurabbed !" Brownyn cried We all knehat she meant, but it wasn’t clear which of us was free to act Then a bee whizzed past Enoch’s nose and buried its stinger in the haunches of the wo astride him, and she squealed and leapt up

"Yes!" Enoch shouted "More bees!"

"They’re tired!" Hugh shouted back "They only just got to sleep after saving you the last time!" But he could see that there was no other way--E both her trunk and Olive frory train conductors, and there werehis chest as if trying to dislodge a piece of stuck food Abelch, and ten or so bees flew out of his s and began stinging every adult in sight

The ot stung right on the tip of his nose, and he hollered and flapped his ar, trying to defend the attackers with spastic dance ht of all the children still on the platforhed and cheered and threw their arms in the air in imitation of their ridiculous elders