Suffer The Little Children by Reilly Frances

Suffer The Little Children by Reilly Frances

Author:Reilly, Frances [Reilly, Frances]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Autobiography: General, Biography &#38
Publisher: Hachette Littlehampton
Published: 2010-11-24T13:00:00+00:00


CHAPTER 13

The Inspectors

I met up with Bernadette and Chrissie at recreation. Bernadette had some paper and a pencil under her cardigan to make the paper planes with. She’d taken them from Sister Francis’s class.

‘What shall we write?’ I asked, wondering how we could get people to take us seriously. We found ourselves a place to sit far away from the rest of the girls and the two nuns on duty.

‘We could write, “Please help us. The nuns are cruel,”’ Chrissie suggested.

‘That’s good. Can you write it, Chrissie?’ Bernadette said, knowing that I would struggle to spell the words.

Chrissie didn’t have to be asked twice. She picked up the pencil and began writing on the paper in large clear letters. I laughed at the way she poked her tongue out of the side of her mouth as she concentrated. After she’d written the same message on both sides of eight pages, Bernadette started folding the paper into planes.

We went behind a tree near the wall. Chrissie was on lookout, and when the coast was clear, she gave the nod to Bernadette and me, and we threw the paper planes as high as we could into the air. One of Bernadette’s went over the wall, but the rest fell to the ground. Laughing at our lack of skill, we gathered them up quickly and waited for a few moments to make sure we weren’t being watched. I said I would be lookout next time to give Chrissie a go.

When I thought it was safe, I gave them a nod and they tried again. None of the planes made it this time, but they were having a great laugh trying. Bernadette suggested that as I was the smallest and the lightest of us, I should stand on someone’s shoulders and throw the rest over. It seemed like a good idea. I loved any chance to climb, and I had a good sense of balance.

‘You can stand on my shoulders, Frances.’

‘OK, Chrissie, but don’t let me fall. You’ll have to stand very still!’

Some girls walked by, and we pretended to be picking up leaves from the ground and stripping the green from them. We got some strange looks, but the girls went on past.

Bernadette took her place at the other side of the tree to keep watch. When Chrissie and I heard the words ‘All clear!’ we moved closer to the wall, and Chrissie clasped her hands together to form a makeshift step. I swung my leg up, placed one foot on her hands and was up on her shoulders in a few seconds.

‘Still clear!’ said Bernadette, from the other side of the tree.

I steadied myself and threw the paper planes with all my strength. I managed to get five over the wall, but one fell back to the ground and another got stuck in the barbed wire. I reached up and pulled it out.

‘Seniors coming!’ warned Bernadette.

I jumped down, and we pretended to be looking for something on the ground again. The seniors paid us no attention whatsoever.



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