[Brownsmith’s Boy by George Manville Fenn]@TWC D-Link bookBrownsmith’s Boy CHAPTER FIVE 5/16
Didn't think I should see you for some time.
Thought perhaps I should never see you again. Thought you'd be sure to come and say `Good-bye!' before you went. Contradictions--eh ?" "I always meant to come over and see you, Mr Brownsmith," I said. "Of course you did, my lad.
Been damp and cold.
Want more sun badly." I said I hoped the weather would soon change, and I began to feel uncomfortable and was just thinking I would go, when he thrust the piece of matting in his pocket, and took up and began stroking one of the cats. "Ah! it's a bad job, my lad!" he said softly--"a terrible job!" I nodded. "A sad job, my lad!--a very sad job!" I nodded again, and waited till a choking sensation had gone off. "Boys don't think enough about their mothers--some boys don't," he went on.
"I didn't, till she was took away.
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