Eli's Children; The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family
Eli's Children; The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family
By George Manville Fenn
19 Nov, 2019
“Eh? What?”
“I say, why don’t you give it up quietly?”
“Speak up; I’m a little hard of hearing.”
“I say, why don’t you give it up quietly?” roared the speaker to a little bent old man, with a weak, thin, piping voice, a
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“Eh? What?”
“I say, why don’t you give it up quietly?”
“Speak up; I’m a little hard of hearing.”
“I say, why don’t you give it up quietly?” roared the speaker to a little bent old man, with a weak, thin, piping voice, and a sharp look that gave him somewhat the air of a very attenuated sparrow in a severe frost, his shrunken legs, in tight yellow leather leggings, seeming to help the idea.
“Don’t shout at me like that, Master Portlock. I arn’t deaf, only a trifle hard of hearing when I’ve got a cowd—just a trifle, you know.” Less