Here are the quotations for this week (Sep 29th to Oct 5th):
1. 'I have taken your keys away from that fat foreigner, and sent him away;
and the studs are in the shirt for mess. Who should know if I do not know ?
And so the baby has become a man, and forgets his nurse; but my nephew shall
make a good servant, or I will beat him twice a day'.
2. .He sat up in bed and looked round. There was a murmur of voices from the
other side of the nursery door. It was better to face the terrible unknown
than to choke in the dark. He slipped out of bed, but his feet were
strangely wilful, and he reeled once or twice. Then he pushed the door open
and staggered - a puffed and purple-faced little figure - into the brilliant
light of the dining-room full of pretty ladies.
3. ...At the end of the garden stood a hedge of flaming poinsettias higher
than anything in the world, because, childlike . (his) . eye could not carry
to the tops of the mango trees. Their green went out against the blue sky,
but the red poinsettias he could just see . as his legs grew under him, he
found that by scaling an enormous rampart - three foot of broken-down mud
wall at the end of the garden - he could come into a ready-made kingdom,
where everyone was his slave.
The sources of the last set of quotations (Sep 15th to 26th), as a number of
people have pointed out, were as follows:
1. (.'He was just the same. You'd ha' thought he'd show up in England like a
fresh stiff on snow - but you never noticed him...) This is from 'A friend
of the family' in 'Debits and Credits'.
2. (..he put out his long-taloned hands to a piece of plate opposite, and
fingered it lovingly.he found the spring, pressed it, and laughed weakly...)
This is from 'The Man who Was' from 'Life's Handicap'.
3. (...Here he stopped, and with a couple of dexterous turns of the wrist,
pegged the bird on its back with outstretched wings.) This is from 'The
Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes', in 'Wee Willie Winkie and other stories'.
Good wishes to all, John R
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