o toiger, treet, in a very poor ime of test parsimony in t difficult and tised a little touco prick ion of greater productivity. In anoten years time, tates ies, le outbreak of summer couc a toucypo o bill when he had buried his wife.
For, at t time, t freseen, Lizzie four -- stern and square, a squat rectangle of a ced Lizzies retc back over eac tig and morning lump of little girl around in a demonstrative c sion easily, except to ted sometuitively feminine in spite of o court it.
t cottage on Ferry -- very taker lived on unconcerned among tiff furnis marriage. s and pieces oday if turned up fresique store, but in time dreary interior, tiny , mildetern like brains, top of ters sleeping in one room in one ty bed.
On Ferry, in t part of touguese fres eeto ed cive; every year more cory sle t summoned to labour as bells o prayer.
tood, or, rat a bibulous angle on a narroreet cut across at an oblique angle by anotreet, all t cookie jar of broken gingerbread ters uffed fence and raised voices in unknoongues and side t roerfeit sometimes used to scream.
Sucecture of two girls early childhood.
A and stuck a poster, siger, on to a picket fence. As soon as Lizzie saer, sed to go to t Emma a cent. teen-year-old time, t skivvy just quit e t so mucer on t tal for t er, purpled off, tore it up.
t ime. Emma s cookery and Faty of anotly skivvy until sucime as plague struck, already pondered t-efficiency of remarriage; ly uncooked almost put ing mood, but t is not to say emper. So t, ten-like upon cruly loved t daughter, whose obduracy recalled his own.
Emma unhandily darned a sock.
"Get t co bed before I lose my temper!"
Emma dropped t in dour lines of affront as sed on tling stratress -- oat straest and c -- sat t in a sunbeam. Sment. It midsummer, only six oclock and still brigside.
S on to tool upon o tcood open for air beo Father.
Next-doors lean and famisself at t concealed ts on trotting doreet, ent. S be denied. tinkled in might signify a profane church.
"ts a tiger," Emma old ed ter on their fence.
"A tiger is a big cat," Emma added instructively.
?
A very big cat.
A dumpy, red-striped, regular cat of tic variety greeted Lizzie op a gatepost as sumped determinedly along Ferry Street; our cat, Ginger, imental er protracted spinsterimes call Miss Ginger, or even Miss Ginger Cuddles. Lizzie, ernly ignored Miss Ginger Cuddles. Miss Ginger Cuddles sneaked. t put out a pao detain o suggest sook second ts as to , for all t decision one firm foot before t t idea t all tan, barking dog of unforeseen breed t could go pleased.
ts easy-going grin took a fancy to Lizzie and, yapping tle figure in te pinafore as it marc to pat its head. She was a fearless girl.
t took a fancy to tle on one particular tree. to t clo sook tle legs could not keep up ten-year-old put o a field on town.
"See top?" te striped tent of scarcely imaginable proportions, into o spare inside for anot red and riped tent, side and, besides tents, bootalls, dotted about t most of all s number of people, for it seemed to to be out tonig, all ern jahose ice-blue eyes.
Sranger among trangers, for all to to faces. tures of teristic gloom; and te smiles of tuguese, er tripping off tipsy-sounding tongues.
"y by to slito pick a pocket or to complete treat, who knows?
Above ting tones of ts unique to ted industrial cities, sunsets never seen in team t set tion t made us all modern.
At sunset, t of Neal, a Roman sensuality; under ternly voluptuous sky, Lizzie abandoned o tated smells and never-before- fat in a vat of frying dougs; ; s; cries of vendors; crack of rifles from te-faced cloered a banjo, age. too muco take in at once, too muco take in at all -- too ric for saken a little beyond igo, a sense of profound strangeness overcoming her.
All unnoticeably small as saken up by tossed about among insensitive sticoats, too close to to see mucic bustle of t tced up ement so t so colour up in t by tide of to a long table where hard cider was sold from a barrel.
te tableclot and sticky , metallic odour. An old in mugs at t, mug after mug, and to oto a tin box -- splaso table to prevent rade urned t off and cider cascaded on to table.
t into Lizzie, tablecloto darkness and crouc inuous stream from t until sed t into very sensitive spot imate sively at the nape of her neck.
So face , decently dressed in a sligepusly filled to ance, quiver of t drank, tossed its pink snout, and trotted off out table.
Lizzie did not ate. S past ts. ts tail disappeared beneat piled to find in t time in an abrupt margin of pitc of to a , t; able; bes, but irring, and t bird.
to rootle t o stroke it, it ss ears out of its eyes and took off at a great pace into tryside. tention ely diverted from tment by t of a man o ts, leaning slig sound repeated itself. Fumbling of rousers, urned round and tripped over Lizzie, because tle unsteady on and so be seen among t doook hold of her shoulders.
"Small cy into tle, ted rig of s of moustache pale half-moon of his smile.
"Small girl," ed er a closer look. speak like ordinary folks. from around ts. ugged at rousers. ook firm it tenderly up beting thighs.
"Small girl, do you knohis is for?"
S buttons; serge; somet and moving. S mind it. e or th: "Kissy, kissy from Missy?"