Queen of the Rushes by Allen Raine

Author:Allen Raine
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-912905-18-8
Publisher: Honno Press
Published: 2019-09-19T00:00:00+00:00

Captain Jack made no answer, but hurried into his lodgings, on reaching which he at once slipped his heavy bundle on to the table, which was ominously bare of any preparations for his midday meal. The large cawl-crock full of water hung over the fire, a piece of bacon, and a fowl making occasional visits to the surface, as the water boiled round and round. But where were the leeks, the white-hearted cabbages, the carrots, the potatoes? Captain Jack took the wooden ladle and turned it disconsolately in the crock. Nothing was there but the fowl and the bacon, and this would not satisfy a Welshman, so he went to the little sandy garden at the back of the house, and returned with a basketful of vegetables well washed in the spout at the back door. Flinging them into the crock and adding the oatmeal which he found ready mixed with water on the table, he waited impatiently for his hostess’s return. With a sailor’s deftness he soon laid the table in the usual simple fashion, and when a few minutes later Marged Jones entered the house she was full of compunction and excuses.

‘Well, in my deed,’ she said, ‘this never happened to me before; and you so kind bringing this ‘pack’ home for me! But ’tis Evan Roberts you see arriving so sudden at twelve o’clock, and nothing ready at John Parry’s; for Mari, poor old beetle, is always behindhand, and then, at the last, running about everywhere but the right way.’

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