[Auld Licht Idylls by J. M. Barrie]@TWC D-Link bookAuld Licht Idylls CHAPTER VII 5/15
It had been drawn up by Cree many years before, when he and his mother had been compelled to part for a time, and I saw from it that he had been trying to teach Mysy to write.
The paper consisted of phrases such as "Dear son Cree," "Loving mother," "I am takin' my food weel," "Yesterday," "Blankets," "The peats is near done," "Mr.Dishart," "Come home, Cree." The Grinder had left this paper with his mother, and she had written letters to him from it. When Dan'l Wilkie objected to keeping a cranky old body like Mysy in his house Cree came back to Thrums and took a single room with a hand-loom in it.
The flooring was only lumpy earth, with sacks spread over it to protect Mysy's feet.
The room contained two dilapidated old coffin-beds, a dresser, a high-backed arm-chair, several three-legged stools, and two tables, of which one could be packed away beneath the other.
In one corner stood the wheel at which Cree had to fill his own pirns.
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