[Brave and True by George Manville Fenn]@TWC D-Link bookBrave and True CHAPTER EIGHT 1/6
CHAPTER EIGHT. GRANDFATHER'S HERO, BY ANON. "Harry Moore's a milksop," said Bob decidedly. "Why ?" asked his sister.
"I thought you liked him." "So I did," answered Bob, "but I hadn't found out what a stupid he was." "And how did you find it out ?" asked Maud. "Well, I'll tell you," said Bob.
"Last Saturday, you know, we had a paper-chase, and the track was over the bog meadows down by the river. Harry Moore and I were last, and all of a sudden he stopped and said: `I can't go over these fields.' I asked him why not, and he said they were _too wet_." Bob uttered the last words very contemptuously. "Well ?" questioned Maud. "Well, I told him he was a little milksop and had better go home, and he went, and I haven't spoken to him since, although I met him and his little sister and brother with their go-cart this morning.
I don't care about being friends with milksops," Bob added frankly. "Of course not," Maud agreed. "Oh, bother this rain," said Bob impatiently.
"It's going to be wet this afternoon.
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