The Nipper by Catherine Cookson

Author:Catherine Cookson [Cookson, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781780360850
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Again, as if Old Mark had read his thoughts he turned his stooped body and asked, ‘Nearly had enough?’

‘It’s a long way.’

A few minutes later they were walking upright again, but they hadn’t taken more than a dozen steps when illuminated in the candlelight, which was almost to its end now, Sandy saw facing him the unmistakable shape of a chimney breast, and gazing about him he realised he was in a kind of rough room, not square, not round, which had once been boarded with wood, but now the wood had, in parts, rotted away.

The old man was holding up his hook in warning for quiet. Then creeping forward on his hands and knees he pushed his face against a wooden panel to the side of the chimney breast, and he kept it there for a few moments before turning and beckoning Sandy to him. Moving aside now, he indicated that Sandy should kneel and put his face to the wood at the point where his hook rested near what looked like two knotholes. He did so, and then the candle almost dropped from his grasp.

He was looking down what appeared to be two long tubes, and at the end of them he could see a man, a finely dressed man, sitting at the head of a table; at one side of him was a woman and on the other side was a girl. He could see the elbow of another person moving up and down as the hand transferred food to its mouth. Then his vision was obscured by the figure of a lackey as he moved round the table, a silver dish in his hand.

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