12/16 "If you'll make that spalpeen stop, I'll get down, for me daughter's cottage is just over there, across fields. Thank you very kindly for the tea and your sweet company. Good-bye, good bye," she called, "and the saints protect you all!" and she hobbled off through a gate in the hedge. But when she came to feel for her purse it was not to be found. She hunted everywhere in the caravan, but in vain. |