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The Post Girl

The Post Girl

Booth, Edward C.

Paperback

Historical Fiction

ISBN10: 1517246814
ISBN13: 9781517246815
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Sep 8 2015
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
When summer comes Mrs. Gatheredge talks of repapering her parlor, and Ginger gets him ready to sleep in the scullery at a night's notice, but the letting of lodgings is not a staple industry in this quarter of Yorkshire, and folks would fare ill on it who knew nothing of the art of keeping a pig or growing their own potatoes in the bit of garden at the back. Visitors pass through, indeed, in large enough numbers between seed- and harvest-time (mostly by bicycle), staring their way round the village from house to house. But all that ever develops is an occasional request for a cup of water-in the hope, no doubt, that we may give them milk-or an interrogation as to the road to somewhere else. Steg's reply to the latter, through a long succession of summers, has waxed into a set formula, which he prepares with all the exactness of a prescription: There 's two rawds [roads] tiv it, he says, measuring out his words carefully against the light of inward understanding, like tincture in a chemist's vial. A right un an' a wrong un. 'Appen ye 'd as lief gan right un. Wrong un 's a long way round.

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