Dora Annie by Patricia Stone

Author:Patricia Stone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

The glorious stained-glass windows fascinated Dora, especially the pane depicting Eve’s temptation. Eve had long blonde hair and was completely nude. The serpent was blue, with a woman’s head and torso, but with cat’s paws offering the tempting apple to Eve. The other one that she always stared at was Cain Killing Abel; it seemed so real. The window that made her laugh was the one showing a blue devil wheeling an old woman to Hell in a brown wheelbarrow. She thought of Old Mother Turkington, a villager who was very nasty to everyone and always cross with the village children. She wondered if this would eventually be Ma Turkington’s fate.

Her mother had her baby brother, Joe, for Dora to fuss over. Sitting in the church amongst her family, with her mum breastfeeding Joe during the sermon, Dora felt full of love for her family, and so happy to be with them all.

On the way back from church the family walked down the main village street, greeting lots of friends and neighbours on the way and exchanging news. Dora was asked many times about her new job, and was thrilled to tell everything about the farm where she now lived and the farmer she worked for.

There were a couple of chapmen – tinkers on the road – selling cloth, ribbons, belts, kettles, and pots and pans. One of them had a donkey pulling his cart and Dora made a great fuss of him. She was very intrigued by the cross on the donkey’s back. Her mother bought a few ribbons for the girls, and they went on their way. This part of Gloucestershire was known locally as ‘Neddyshire’, because of the large number of pack-donkeys distributing goods to all the villages.

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