8/18 He won't have nothing to do with his friends, chucked playing marbles or hopscotch, and goes out in the country, picking flowers. Just to humor him, the first lot he brought home I put in one of those vases that ma brought us from Yarmouth, and what do you think he did ?--threw the vase out of the window and bought with his own pocket money a plain china bowl." Burton listened in blank amazement. As yet the light had not come. "Anything else ?" "Up comes his master a few days ago," Ellen continued. |