“ ‘The bits have to go on the left and the bobs on the right,’ Karlson had explained to Smidge. In among all his bits and bobs, Karlson also had two nice paintings that Smidge admired. One was of a cockerel and called ‘Portrait of a Very Lonely Red Cockerel’; the other was of a fox, and called ‘Portrait of my Rabbits’. You couldn’t see the rabbits, admittedly, but that was only because they were in the fox, according to Karlson.”