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muninnhuginn) wrote2016-02-18 04:56 pm
muninnhuginn) wrote2016-02-18 04:56 pm
Eggs and Galsworthy
Eggs!
Elderly hens ahve not been laying this winter.
So, eggs!
Also, this had me laughing out loud. For reals ;-)
"... at this moment Aunt Hester returned.
"Timothy," she said in a low voice, "Timothy has bought a map, and he's put in—he's put in three flags."
Timothy had ….! A sigh went round the company.
If Timothy had indeed put in three flags already, well!—it showed what the nation could do when it was roused. The war was as good as over."
Elderly hens ahve not been laying this winter.
So, eggs!
Also, this had me laughing out loud. For reals ;-)
"... at this moment Aunt Hester returned.
"Timothy," she said in a low voice, "Timothy has bought a map, and he's put in—he's put in three flags."
Timothy had ….! A sigh went round the company.
If Timothy had indeed put in three flags already, well!—it showed what the nation could do when it was roused. The war was as good as over."
John Galsworthy, In Chancery, Chapter XII