Re: Pat Ritter. Books
Posted: Sat May 24, 2014 1:22 am
'The Shearer' - Page 100:
‘I’ll help you down and welcome to our place. Call me Nat.’ He helped Ma down from the sulky.
‘Now young lady why aren’t you at school?’ Nat asked his daughter in a stern voice.
‘Pa, it’s a long story. Can we go inside? I’ll tell you all about it later after we’ve had some lunch.’ Hannah walked to the front veranda and up the stairs, ‘This way Ma. We’re in time for lunch aren’t we, Mother?’ Hannah asked when she climbed the stairs to the front veranda.
‘You have a beautiful place here Mr Young – I mean Nat,’ Ma said following Hannah to the front veranda.
‘Martha keeps the place going while I tend to the sheep,’ Nat explained.
They entered the kitchen, ‘cook has taken the weekend off so I need to make us lunch,’ Martha said. She returned to the veranda and opened the Coolgardie safe to retrieve a leg of cooked mutton, bread and butter.
‘Now young lady – why are you not at school?’ Martha asked Hannah when she got back to the kitchen.
‘Mother – it’s a long story, can we eat first?’ Hannah explained. She knew her parents wanted to know her reason for not attending school but didn’t know their response.
‘We’ll have lunch and then you tell us why you’re not at school.’ She’d already warmed to the old lady in Hannah’s company and thought how similar in features she resembled her own mother-in-law.
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‘I’ll help you down and welcome to our place. Call me Nat.’ He helped Ma down from the sulky.
‘Now young lady why aren’t you at school?’ Nat asked his daughter in a stern voice.
‘Pa, it’s a long story. Can we go inside? I’ll tell you all about it later after we’ve had some lunch.’ Hannah walked to the front veranda and up the stairs, ‘This way Ma. We’re in time for lunch aren’t we, Mother?’ Hannah asked when she climbed the stairs to the front veranda.
‘You have a beautiful place here Mr Young – I mean Nat,’ Ma said following Hannah to the front veranda.
‘Martha keeps the place going while I tend to the sheep,’ Nat explained.
They entered the kitchen, ‘cook has taken the weekend off so I need to make us lunch,’ Martha said. She returned to the veranda and opened the Coolgardie safe to retrieve a leg of cooked mutton, bread and butter.
‘Now young lady – why are you not at school?’ Martha asked Hannah when she got back to the kitchen.
‘Mother – it’s a long story, can we eat first?’ Hannah explained. She knew her parents wanted to know her reason for not attending school but didn’t know their response.
‘We’ll have lunch and then you tell us why you’re not at school.’ She’d already warmed to the old lady in Hannah’s company and thought how similar in features she resembled her own mother-in-law.
TO PURCHASE THIS BOOK CLICK ONTO THIS LINK: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/395642.