‘Where am I going to get my hands on an okapi?’ The men in grey suits looked at each other. ‘Two okapis,’ their spokesman said. ‘What?’ ‘We need two okapis,’ the spokesman explained. ‘One male and one female.’ ‘Do you really?’ The pet-shop owner breathed out through his nose. ‘Look, lads,’ he said, ‘why can’t you just settle for a nice hamster instead? I’ve got plenty of hamsters.’ The spokesman frowned. ‘So have we,’ he said. ‘In fact, we’ve got more hamsters than we need, really. We started off with two a short while ago, but now we seem to have lots of them. Tell you what,’ he added, ‘we could do a deal. All our spare hamsters for a pair of okapis.’ ‘That’s a lot of hamsters,’ pointed out his chief aide. The pet-shop man sighed and went back behind his counter, in a manner designed to suggest that he’d lost interest in these negotiations. ‘Listen,’ he said. ‘I’d love to be able to help you out here, but I can’t. No okapis.
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