Cart and Cwidder (UK) by Diana Wynne Jones

Author:Diana Wynne Jones [Jones, Diana Wynne]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780008170622
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2016-10-17T04:00:00+00:00

“Oh, I liked that!” said Moril.

“I took a leaf out of your book,” Kialan said, rather apologetically. “I don’t like the old style either, and I don’t see why old things should be sacred. Wow! I’m out of practice, though! Do you think I’ll be any use to you?”

“You know you will,” said Brid. “You big fraud. If you’re that good, why on earth didn’t you say so before? Father would have put you in the show, instead of making you walk through all the towns.”

“I know he would!” Kialan said feelingly. “He’d have dressed me in scarlet and flaunted me. I didn’t quite like to say anything at first – you were all so excellent – and as soon as I realised what your father was like, I’d have died rather than tell him. It was frightening enough walking.”

The upshot of this was that Olob quietly pulled the gleaming cart on to the green of the village a mile or so on, and three people stood up to sing and play. Moril and Kialan were nervous, Brid, as usual, as confident as a queen. Moril did one or two of Dagner’s songs, but mostly they sang ballads, since those were Brid’s speciality and Kialan’s voice was not equal to anything more difficult. A scattering of people listened and clapped. Someone asked for an encore, and Brid gave them Cow-Calling. They got a little money, enough to buy eggs, milk and butter, and a woman gave Brid a basket of somewhat withered apples. It was not a raving success, but it was no failure either.

“We can do it!” said Brid.

Moril smiled, and strummed his cwidder as they took to the road again. Every so often he played a tune in earnest, and Kialan would come in too, on Dagner’s cwidder. Kialan was getting more in practice every moment. They experimented, and tried for effects and new settings. Moril had seldom enjoyed making music so much. He almost wished the distance to Hannart were twice as long.

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