[Melchior’s Dream and Other Tales by Juliana Horatia Ewing]@TWC D-Link bookMelchior’s Dream and Other Tales CHAPTER III 5/15
He had no difficulty in finding it.
It was marked by a large ugly stone, on which the inscription was green and in some places almost effaced. SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF EPHRAIM GARNETT-- He had read so far when a voice close by him said-- "You'll be late for school, young chap." Bill looked up, and to his horror beheld Bully Tom standing in the road and kicking the churchyard wall. "Aren't you going ?" he asked, as Bill did not speak. "Not to-night," said Bill, with crimson cheeks. "Larking, eh ?" said Bully Tom.
"My eyes, won't your father give it you!" and he began to move off. "Stop!" shouted Bill in an agony; "don't tell him, Tom.
That would be a dirty trick.
I'll go next time, I will indeed; I can't go to-night. I'm not larking, I'm scared.
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