Here are the quotations for next week (May 3rd to 9th):
1. “Heavens!” said Jimmy, brushing himself down. “Who’s
that real man with the real head?” and we hurried after them, for they were
running unsteadily, squeaking like rabbits as they ran. We overtook them in a
little nut wood half a mile up the road, where they had turned aside, and were
rolling. So we rolled with them, and ceased not till we had arrived at the
extremity of exhaustion.
2. Then the three buried themselves in
Number Five lavatory, turned on all the taps, filled the place with steam, and
dropped weeping into the baths, where they pieced out the war.
‘Moi!
Je! Ich! Ego!’ gasped Stalky. ‘I waited till I couldn’t hear myself think,
while you played the drum! Hid in the coal-locker—and tweaked Rabbits-Eggs—and
Rabbits-Eggs rocked King. Wasn’t it beautiful? Did you hear the glass?’
‘Why, he—he—he,’ shrieked M‘Turk, one trembling finger pointed at
Beetle.
‘Why, I—I—I was through it all,’ Beetle howled; ‘in his study,
being jawed.’
3. Framlynghame Admiral village is a good two miles
from the station, and I waked the holy calm of the evening every step of that
way with shouts and yells, casting myself down in the flank of the good green
hedge when I was too weak to stand. There was an inn,—a blessed inn with a
thatched roof, and peonies in the garden,—and I ordered myself an upper chamber
in which the Foresters held their courts, for the laughter was not all out of
me. A bewildered woman brought me ham and eggs, and I leaned out of the
mullioned window, and laughed between mouthfuls.
The sources of this week's extracts April 26th to May 2nd) are as
follows:
1. (...'Have it as you've a mind to,' he was saying, 'but the
vivers of her roots they hold the bank together...') This is from "Hal 'o
the Draft" in Puck of Pook's Hill,
2. ( '...The brook she'd crep' up on us, an' she
kep' creepin' upon us till we was workin' knee deep in the shallers,..')
This is from "Friendly Brook" in A Diversity of
Creatures.
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...) This is from "The Wish House" in Debits and
Credits.
In the New Readers' Guide we have just published notes by John McGivering
on two more stories which have only been collected in the Sussex Edition,
"The Wreck of the Visigoth", and "The Last Relief". typgether with
the text of the stories.
Good May Day wishes to all
John R
