Here are the quotations for this week (April 26th to May 2nd):
1. 'Have it as you've a mind to,' he was saying, 'but the vivers of her
roots they hold the bank together. If you grub her out, the bank she'll
all come tearing down, an' next floods the brook'll all swarve up. But
have it as you've a mind...'
2. '...The brook she'd crep' up on us, an' she kep' creepin' upon us till
we was workin' knee deep in the shallers, cuttin' an' pookin' an pullin'
what we could get to o' the rubbbish. There was a middlin' lot comin'
down-stream, too - cattle-bars an' hop-poles and odds-end bats, all
poltin' down together...'
3. ...'Twas hot an' windy for weeks, an' the streets stinkin' o' dried
'orse-dung blowin' from side to side an' lyin' level with the kerb. We
don't get that nowadays. I 'ad my 'ol'day just before hoppin', an' come
down 'ere to stay with Bessie again. She noticed I'd lost flesh, an' was
all poochy under the eyes.'...
The sources of last week's extracts (April 19th to 25th) are as follows:
1. ( ... he went on between the lilies and the loquats and the roses and
the cannas and the heavy-scented ginger-plants that grew in the garden
2. (...'When the carpet of Opportunity is unrolled before thee, do not
consider where thou shalt sit..) This is from "Railway Reform in Great
Britain",
3. )...And when all was done, and the People of the Graves were laid at
ease and in honour, it pleased the Padishah to cross the little water...)
This is from "The Debt" in Limits and Renewals.
Good wishes to all, John R
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