Mary Norton - Borrowers 01 by The Borrowers

Author:The Borrowers
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 2012-06-01T14:31:48+00:00

Arrietty folded the letter and placed it carefully between the pages of Bryce’s Tom Thumb Gazetteer of the World and, in the diary, she wrote: “Went borrowing. Wrote to H. Talked to B.” After that Arrietty sat for a long time staring into the fire, and thinking and thinking and thinking….

Chapter Twelve

BUT it was one thing to write a letter and quite another to find some means of getting it under the mat. Pod, for several days, could not be persuaded to go borrowing: he was well away on his yearly turn-out of the storerooms, mending partitions, and putting up new shelves. Arrietty usually enjoyed this spring sorting, when half-forgotten treasures came to light and new uses were discovered for old borrowings. She used to love turning over the scraps of silk or lace; the odd kid gloves; the pencil stubs; the rusty razor blades; the hairpins and the needles; the dried figs, the hazel nuts, the powdery bits of chocolate, and the scarlet stubs of sealing wax. Pod, one year, had made her a hairbrush from a toothbrush and Homily had made her a small pair of Turkish bloomers from two glove fingers for “knocking about in the mornings.” There were spools and spools of colored silks and cottons and small variegated balls of odd wool penpoints which Homily used as flour scoops, and bottle tops galore.

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