worship-ping

Updated: May 11, 2025

The God who fashions children can tell where she learnt that look, and why I remembered it ten years later, when they let me look into the room where she lay with another babe in her clay-cold arms. "Count forty," she went on, using the very words of Pretty Tommy, our parish clerk: "count forty, and let fly with 'Now draw around " "Now draw around, good Christian men, And rest you worship-ping "

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - Noughts and Crosses : Stories, Studies and Sketches