Elidor (Essential Modern Classics) by Alan Garner

Author:Alan Garner
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780007388769
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

“You’ll do at that,” said David. “It’s the best we can manage in the time. Give us your hand and I’ll pull you out.”

“Right,” said Helen. “Last spadeful coming up – oh!”

She drove the spade into the sand, and it hit something which cracked. Helen knelt and picked out several fragments of earthenware.

“Oh, I think it was a whole jug!” she said. “And I’ve smashed it. Look, Roland. Oh, isn’t it lovely!”

She wiped a piece with her hand. It was a creamy brown colour, with a blue tinge of lead in the glaze, and there were the head and forelegs of a unicorn lined in dark red.

“Gosh, it must be centuries old,” said Roland.

“I’m going to mend it,” said Helen. “Oh, what a pity! If only I hadn’t broken it! I’d give anything not to have broken it!”

“We’ll be copped if you don’t hurry up,” said Nicholas.

Helen and Roland were pulled out of the hole, and the dustbin was lowered in. They kicked and shovelled the earth back, and stamped it down.

“There,” said Nicholas.

When they went into the kitchen to clean their hands the washing machine had stopped.

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