15/24 "I want you to read what it says." "Yes, to be sure--I forgot what you said about havin' no schoolin'. Rev.Dr.Purdie J.Glasson, Holy Innocents' Orphanage, Bursfield, near Birmingham '-- leastways, I can't read the last line clear, the paper bein' frayed; but it's bound to be what I've said." "Why ?" "Why, because that's the address. Holy Innocents, down by the canal-- I know it, o' course, _and_ Dr.Glasson. Damper supplied 'em with milk for over six months, an' trouble enough we had to get our money." "How far is it ?" "Matter of half a mile, I should say--close by the canal. |