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He has chipped out a flint ring, a feat which taxed the powers of the clever neolithic knappers of pre-dynastic Egypt; whilst with one of his own flint fishhooks he has taken a fine trout from the Little Ouse that runs by the town. Thus there are things in old England that are older even than some of our friends wot.
She sat and stared at the fire a few moments, and then began to speak in a low luxuriating voice. "I'd get a better room," she said, revelling. "There's one in the next 'ouse. I'd 'ave a few sticks o' furnisher in it a bed an' a chair or two. I'd get some warm petticuts an' a shawl an' a 'at with a ostrich feather in it. Polly an' me 'd live together. We'd 'ave fire an' grub every day.
"If I can't be master in my own 'ouse I'm better at sea, hard as it is. You must choose between us, Julia me or your relations. I won't sleep under the same roof as them for another night. Am I to go?" "Please yourself," ses 'is wife. "I don't mind your staying 'ere so long as you behave yourself, but the others won't go; you can make your mind easy on that."
Along the river shore, from the race of the ebb that had so nearly drowned me many years before, I watched the walls that mark the edge of the town against the Ouse, and especially that group towards which the ferry-boat was struggling against the eddy and tumble of the tide.
"'Why, I see 'im go into your 'ouse and I never see 'im come out. "'But, my good man, I protested, 'that is exceedingly bad logic. If you saw him go in, there is a fair presumption that he went in "'I see 'im with my own eyes, my friend interrupted, as though there were other alternative means of vision.
They stayed till it was over, and on the bus he gave Sam some strong peppermint lozenges wot 'e always carried about with 'im, and took some 'imself. He said 'e found 'em helpful. "What are we going to tell Peter and Ginger?" ses Sam, as they got near the 'ouse. "Tell 'em?" ses Mr. Goodman. "Tell 'em the truth.
'Ow did WE get on? Well, we kep' quiet. We didn't interfere with no-one and no-one didn't interfere with us. We 'ad some old 'tatoes about, but mocely we lived on rats. Ours was a old 'ouse, full of rats, and the famine never seemed to bother 'em. Orfen we got a rat. Orfen. But moce of the people who lived hereabouts was too tender stummicked for rats. Didn't seem to fancy 'em.
Instead of watching my float, I could not help watching his face with an amused interest at its absorbed expression, which after a while he began to notice, and the following little dialogue ensued, which I remember as though it took place yesterday:— “How old were you when you used to fish in the Ouse?” “Oh, all sorts of ages; it was at all sorts of times, you know.” “Well, how young then?”
The very atmosphere was pensive, and filled the tall spaces like a memory and a dream. I sat down and listened to the choral service and to the organ, which blended perfectly with the spirit and sentiment of the place. One of my best days in England was spent amid the singing of skylarks on the South Down Hills, near an old town at the mouth of the Little Ouse, where I paused on my way to France.
I wonder how it came about that her strain, after passing through the basest conditions of modern life, had thus reverted to a type of ancestral exuberance. 'If only he doesn't hear about the old man or the girl from somebody! said Mrs. Peckover. 'I've been afraid of it ever since he come into the 'ouse. There's so many people might tell him. You'll have to come round him sharp, Clem.
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