9/30 They bought a cow for his sole use and benefit, and guarded it like a sacred animal but to no purpose. He drank of its milk and grew thinner than ever. Strange furrows began to appear on his tiny face, with shadows and a transparent tinge like the blue of skim-milk. As the pure air of Drayton did so little for him, Mrs.Nevill Tyson wondered how he would bear the change to London. "But you might as well poison the little beast at home while you're about it." So it was an understood thing that when Mr.and Mrs.Nevill Tyson settled in town, Baby was to be left behind at Thorneytoft for the good of his health. |