Mary has plenty of money and will you go to Thwaite and buy her some
flower seeds and a set of garden tools to make a flower-bed. Pick the
prettiest ones and easy to grow because she has never done it before
and lived in India which is different. Give my love to mother and
everyone of you. Miss Mary is going to tell me a lot more so that on my
next day out you can hear about elephants and camels and gentlemen
going hunting lions and tigers.
Your loving sister,
Martha Ph be Sowerby.
We ll put the money in th envelope an I ll get th butcher boy to
take it in his cart. He s a great friend o Dickon s, said Martha.
How shall I get the things when Dickon buys them?
He ll bring em to you himself. He ll like to walk over this way.
Oh! exclaimed Mary, then I shall see him! I never thought I should
see Dickon.
Does tha want to see him? asked Martha suddenly, for Mary had looked
so pleased.
Yes, I do. I never saw a boy foxes and crows loved. I want to see him
very much.
Martha gave a little start, as if she remembered something.
Now to think, she broke out, to think o me forgettin that there;
an I thought I was goin to tell you first thing this mornin . I asked
mother and she said she d ask Mrs. Medlock her own self.
Do you mean Mary began.
What I said Tuesday. Ask her if you might be driven over to our
cottage some day and have a bit o mother s hot oat cake, an butter,
an a glass o milk.
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