Part 90 (1/2)
”Yes, and a terrible job to shut it,” said Toet it fast”
”Ah, I arn't surprised Wind's a blusterous sort o' thing when its reg'lar on Just look: here's a wreck and rain to do next?”
”David!”
”Yes, sir; coardener, in answer to a call; and as he went off to where hisout loose slates and a curled-up piece of lead on the roof to the village bricklayer, the ain froht Toe done by the stor straight to the green, where half the people were standing talking about the el the brittleness of the wood, for the huge trunks had snapped here and there, and e tree, were shi+vered and splintered in a wonderful way
Every here and there a ruddy patch in the road shohere tile or chin at the village inn had been torn fro the great gilt weather-cock on the little spire at the top of the big square, ivy-clad tower
He was at the edge of the churchyard using a s”
”Ah, good-ht! There, you try Your eyes are young”
He handed the telescope
”It's terrible, ins's laid quite flat, they say, and two straw-stacks regularly swept away”
”The stacks, sir?” cried Tolass in hand
”Well, not all at once, but the straw They tell me it has been swept over the country for miles I never remember such a storm here I've seen them on the coast”
”Why, the bar under the letters has bent right down, sir,” said Tom, after a minute's examination ”I can't see whether it's broken”
”Not likely to be, To else broken?”
”One of the arht down”
”Hah! Well, it ht?”
”No,” said To every now and then, for the tower shutters are all gone on the other side Four caarden I can't findthe bells
Good-ed Your uncle says you nearly had the top off the mill, and that you behaved splendidly”
”Oh, nonsense, sir!” said To ”I only nailed down the top shutter”
”Only? Well, Toot up there and nailed it down for all the telescopes in England Good-”
They parted, and Toli in the tohere the bells hung exposed; and then after passing a great horse-chestnut lying in the next field, he went on round by Mother Warboys' and the other cottages, catching sight of the old wo at her door, with her hand over her eyes, as if watching