Grierson, Elizabeth Wilson, Cowham, Hilda · London, W. & R. Chambers Ltd. · leaf 230
already seven oclock, andthe pigs are not fed, nor the chickens, andthe cow waits in her stall to be led out topasture. There was no answer, and she shrugged hershoulders impatiently. Plague upon the boy,1 she muttered, andupon those who brought him! Three francs aweek doth not go far on his food,… … Thou lazy dreamer ! she said, pulling him to his feet by the collar of his blue cotton blouse.v- L- PAGE 205. ASTOTILDEN FOU; R. MADAME GENVIEVE. 205 wretched little outhouses which adjoined hercottage for the delinquent. She found him at last, a little white-faced,dark-haired lad, clad in a blue…
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