More Milly-Molly-Mandy by Joyce Lankester Brisley

Author:Joyce Lankester Brisley [Brisley, Joyce Lankester]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Macmillan Children’s Books

Billy Blunt waited, but the blacksmith didn’t say anything more. So he began strolling up the lane after the two ladies, who were near the stile by now.

The lady in the mackintosh seemed to be a bit flustered, whispering to the other. Then the other one said (so that he could hear):

“I seem to have lost my shopping-list, it isn’t in my basket. Have you got it, dear?”

Billy Blunt strolled nearer. He wanted to see their faces.

“No, I haven’t got it,” said the first one. “We’d better go home and look for it. Oh, dear, I think it’s coming on to rain. I felt a little spit. I must put up my umbrella.”

And she opened it and held it over them both, so that Billy Blunt couldn’t see so much of them.

He strolled a bit nearer, and stopped to pick an unripe blackberry from the hedge and put it in his mouth. He wanted to see the ladies climb over the stile.

But they waited there, rummaging in their basket and talking of the rain. Billy Blunt couldn’t feel any rain. Presently he heard the lady with the basket say in a rather pointed way:

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