Kitty Alone: A Story of Three Fires (vol. 1 of 3)
Kitty Alone: A Story of Three Fires (vol. 1 of 3)
By S. Baring-Gould
8 Sep, 2020
Brief Extract: The sun of summer had blistered the green paint on the table, and persons having leisure had amused themselves with picking the skin off these blisters and exposing the white paint underneath, and then, with pen or pencil, exercising t
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Brief Extract: The sun of summer had blistered the green paint on the table, and persons having leisure had amused themselves with picking the skin off these blisters and exposing the white paint underneath, and then, with pen or pencil, exercising their ingenuity in converting these bald patches into human faces, or in scribbling over them their own names and those of the ladies of their heart. Below the platform at low water the ooze was almost solidified with the vast accumulation of cockle and winkle shells thrown over the edge, together with bits of broken plates, fragments of glass, tobacco-pipes, old handleless knives, and sundry other refuse of a tavern.
Above the platform, against the wall, was painted in large letters, to be read across the estuary-- Less