[Brownsmith’s Boy by George Manville Fenn]@TWC D-Link book
Brownsmith’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.


<<Back  Index  Next>>

D-Link book Top

TWC mobile books