[Brownsmith’s Boy by George Manville Fenn]@TWC D-Link bookBrownsmith’s Boy CHAPTER THREE 1/7
CHAPTER THREE. OLD BROWNSMITH'S VISITOR. The time glided on, but I did not go to the garden again, for my mother felt that we must not put ourselves under so great an obligation to a stranger.
Neither did I take her over for a walk, but we sat at the window a great deal after lesson time; and whenever I was alone and Shock was within sight, he used to indulge in some monkey-like gesture, all of which seemed meant to show me what a very little he thought of me. At the end of a fortnight, as I was sitting at the window talking to a boy who went to a neighbouring school, and telling him why I did not go, a great clod of earth came over the wall and hit the boy in the back. "Who's that!" he cried sharply.
"Did you shy that lump ?" "No," I said; and before I could say more, he cried: "I know.
It was Brownsmith's baboon shied that.
Only let us get him out in the fields, we'll give it him.
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