Holiday Time at Forest House [By Miss Hutton]. (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1882. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XVI. LINTELL TREAT. BETSY and Sam were packing the huge store of good things, at an early hour the next morning, when Mrs. Glyn arrived, and by half-past eight o'clock the three light covered carts were on the road; warm and cosy inside, with rugs and shawls, and a thick layer of straw in the bottom, in which hot bricks were laid. When about half the journey was over, the carts stopped at a wayside inn to rest the horses, and the whole party got out to stretch themselves and look about them. It was a wild scene; the high hills rose in front of them, and the road was rough and bad, but the sun made every point of rock and every dark pine-tree radiant with light, and the homesteads lay peacefully in the valley below, with their blue smoke curling quietly upwards. into the sunlight. He looked anything but horrid, nor did he reel about, as Jackey more than half suspected he would do, as he was quite sure that he had seen him pay for two glasses of warm beer. He was a tall, fair man, with a bright beard and moustache, red, healthy-looking cheeks, pleasant brown eyes, and a smiling mouth. "Papa," said Jackey, in a solemn undertone, coming out from the smoky kitchen of the inn after a voyage of discovery, "the Bobby's there, and he's drinking beer. He looks very horrid." "Nonsense, my boy; how can you tell what he looks like in that black hole; and, besides, you shouldn't say ' Bobby.'" "Betsy always calls him 'the Bobby, ' and says 'bless him' too." "Well, you may say ' bless him' if you like, but not 'Bobby;' he wouldn't like it." But Jackey thought that "bless him" did all very well for a sister to say, but was not quite so appropriate for him; whereas it would have been more natural if Betsy had called him Joseph, while " Bobby" was the right title fo...