Here are the quotations for next week, July 13th to 19th)
1. …And the little girl-daughter said, 'This is a good nut that I am eating.
If you choose I will make a magic and I will give you this pair of scissors,
very sharp and strong, so that you and your children can eat coconuts like
this all day long when you come up from the Sea to the land …'
2. …'I am the Colonel Sahib's son, and my order is that you go at once. You
black men are frightening the Miss Sahib. One of you must run into
cantonments and take the news that the Miss Sahib has hurt herself, and that
the Colonel's son is here with her…'
3. …'I went forward; but I cannot say whither I went, and there was no more
food for myself or the sister. And upon a hot night, she weeping and calling
for food, we came to a well, and I bade her sit upon the kerb, and thrust
her in, for, in truth, she could not see; and it is better to die than to
starve…'
The sources of this week’s extracts (July 6th to 12th) are as follows:
1. (…the light poured in between the tree trunks so that you could see red
and gold and black deep into the heart of Far Wood…) This is from "On the
Great Wall" from Puck of Pook's Hill.
2. (…The old farmhouse, weather-tiled to the ground, took almost the colour
of a blood-red ruby in the afternoon light…) This is from "Hal o' the
Draft" in Puck of Pook's Hill.
3. (…'They stole down our alley, they tapped secretly at our door, they
took off their rags, they arrayed themselves, and they talked to my father
at the wine…) This is from "The Treasure and the Law" in Puck of Pook's
Hill.
Good wishes to all, John R
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