Items related to Giles's minority; or, Scenes at the red house
Synopsis
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.1874 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER X. GREENS BOY "The very day to read it: the whole world is Green--Green's boy himself, whoever he was, couldn't have been greener," said Jacintha, as she and Hilda sat together at the foot of an old oak whose branches spread a broad carpet of shade upon the hot turf, and made a cool resting-place for the girls. The sketch-book lay neglected beside them--it was too hot to work, Hildegarde said, she had taken lately to calling her drawing "work;" Giles and Lottie were dabbling in the brook with their miniature landing nets, fishing up strange things for the aquarium, and splashing each other a good deal. Cousin Lois's red book lay in Hilda's lap, the sisters leant against each other and both heads were bent over the page. "Godmamma said there was a lesson for me in it, and I was to try and be as handy as Dot: read on Hilda, let's see who 'Dot' is; I suspect her fingers were not all thumbs, as mine are." "Why do you grunt when you stoop, Papa?" asked our youngest son, an urchin of five years old. We were assembled in the children's garden. A theory existed that in that garden children's hands did all the work, but, like many another theory, it was not altogether carried out in practice, to which I could certainly bear testimony that hot June evening. "Why do you grunt when you stoop, Papa?" says little Tom, "/don't." "Can't help it, my dear; I am not so young as I was. There! that is not bad, I fancy," I added, stepping backwards to judge of the effect of the bright bedding-out plants in the tiny borders, "but Green's boy would have done it better, eh! mama?" "Who is Green's boy?" asked my youngest daughter Dorothy, next in age to little Tom, while my wife remarked that of all affectations, the affectation of age was the most unaccountable. I was young...
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