William by Richmal Crompton

Author:Richmal Crompton [Crompton, Richmal]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781509805259
Publisher: Pan Macmillan

‘YOU JUST SIT DOWN ON THE LITTLE FOOTSTOOL AT MY FEET, DARLING,’ SAID MISS VERNEY. WILLIAM SAT DOWN OBEDIENTLY.

THE YOUNG MAN WAS GAPING AT WILLIAM. ‘THIS ISN’T – ISN’T—’ HE STAMMERED. ‘YES, IT IS,’ SAID MISS PERKINS STONILY.

‘Worth a halfpenny?’ asked the queue still more anxiously.

‘Yes. Reelly worth a halfpenny,’ said the small child earnestly.

William and the Outlaws were coming home from a happy day spent in Mr Peters’ shrubbery. Mr Peters had watched them anxiously from an upstairs window. He would have liked to have sent them away but lacked the courage. William had arrived the week before with a handsome contribution for his ‘society’, and so Mr Peters knew that at any rate for the next few weeks he would have to allow them to riot unchecked in his shrubbery. He watched them in an agony as they made fires and climbed his favourite trees, longing for the time when the few weeks should be up during which the moral effect of their contribution might be supposed to last.

‘It’s a jolly good place to play, isn’t it?’ said William happily, ‘an’ he can’t stop us for a bit yet, seein’ we gave him three an’ elevenpence three farthin’s—’

‘Let’s see the letter she wrote you again,’ said Ginger.

William drew from his pocket a grimy piece of paper already worn to shreds from its sojourn in his pocket.

Dere William,

I did so enjoy being a waxwork in your sho and its luvly that they’ve sent me to a bording scule. Mother had a nurvus brakedown when she saw the foto, to late to stop it in the papers, an is stil having it. I luv being at bording scule.

Luv from,

Rosemary.

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