Slinky Jane by Catherine Cookson

Author:Catherine Cookson [Cookson, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780360560
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Grandpop watched Rosie out of the room, and then he thrust his head out of the window and called, ‘Joe!…Here! D’you hear? Joe!’

But not until Grandpop’s third bellow had filled the square did Joe appear, and Grandpop, almost foaming at the mouth, bawled, ‘You stone deaf?’

‘No,’ said Old Pop testily. ‘Who could be with you around? Can’t you see I’m busy?’

‘Aye, if I’d eyes that went round corners I might. Here!’ He beckoned his son nearer to him, and when Old Pop stepped over the flower bed and brought his head close to his father’s, Grandpop, his voice now as near as he could get it to a whisper, said, ‘Feel owt?’

Old Pop’s eyes narrowed and his face screwed up into folds.

‘Feel owt?’ he repeated. ‘What do you mean? About it being sports day?’

‘Sports day! Don’t be so pluddy gormless,’ admonished his father. ‘You know as well as me, summat’s up.’

‘You mean with the lad?’

‘Aye, and with ’ole village. Look at yesterday, Miss Florrie going past and never a “Hallo there”—made on horse was mettlesome, didn’t turn her eye, she didn’t. First time in her life. Then old Ma Andrews comin’ sittin’ outside the shop.’ Grandpop nodded in the direction of the post office. ‘Never done that for years, she hasn’t six or more. Then Pluddy Bridget goes in twice in afternoon again. And who else waddles in but Katie Booth? What Harry ever saw in that old sow. Flabby, fat—’

‘Shut up man!’ said Old Pop sharply.

‘She’s in kitchen’—Grandpop jerked his head backwards—‘she’d have to hoick her ears out to hear me.’

‘She could be as far gone as Hexham but she’d hear summat like that, so let it drop.’

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