tarily remembered from t you mig of difficulty in believing I ever beloo it.
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time goes on, you get stronger on ys, and by degrees you begin to get a grasp of geograp like any ot to tants. It er all till exists—about five miles from t lay in a bit of a valley, self and top of t of dim blue masses among op of t been for a iced tence of Binfield look into tance. But by t time I k a little before you got to t-place, and on t-s a y old ced ting ttle, t for Abdulla cigarettes—tian soldiers on it, and curiously enoug to takia. Be-place top of ter t and chaff.
Before t e a t’s a delusion. I’m merely trying to tell you o me. If I s my eyes and time before I I remember it. Eit’s t-place at diime, of sleepy dusty o ’s a afternoon in t green juicy meadoo’s about dusk is, and tobacd nigocks floating t in a sense I do remember different seasons, because all my memories are bound up o eat, times of to find in t tting red enougo eat. Iember ts. t s of reacer on ts and crab-apples. t you used to eat mucaste if you t of ty, and so are tems of various grasses. tter, and pig-nuts, and a kind of e. Even plantain seeds are better thing when you’re a long way from home and very hungry.
Joe o pay Katie Simmons eigo take us out for ernoons. Katie’s fateen c t for odd jobs. S very different from ours. S me by t enougy over us to prevent us from being run over by dogcarts or c so far as versation on equal terms. e used to go for long, trailing kind of ing t tments, across Roper’s Meadoo ts and tiny carp in it (Joe and I used to go fis older), and back by to pass t-s stood on toion t anyone bankrupt, and to my o imes a s-s it ion for c o glue our noses against tie in t above ss and quarrelling over ss uff called Paradise Mixture, mostly broken ss from ottles, ols, pop kinds of ss, a g, and sometimes a see prize packets nos toes printed on ticky pink stuff in an oval maty tin spoon to eat it a s, and so e pipes and sugar matc standby Penny Monsters? Does one ever see a Penny Monster no le, of fizzy lemonade, all for a penny. t’s anot tone dead.
It alo be summer ing out of t in t ing trailing aloing stuff out of tie dragging at my arm and saying ‘e on, Baby!’ and sometimes yelling ao Joe, ‘Joe! You e back ‘ere te! You’ll catc!’ Joe of remendous calves, t seven into s trousers, ogs dra clumping boots t boys o ill in frocks—a kind of Moto make for me. Katie used to desded from sister to sister in ails , and a long, draggled skirt ton boots rodden do mucaller t not bad at ‘minding’ c a c as soon as it’s times sry to be groing you s o care’, sely:
‘Don’t care o care, Don’t care in a pot And boiled till he was done.’
Or if you called rue one day ting along pretending to be a soldier and fell into a co. tle rat-reet beo dodge going to sco do in tarted running errands and doing ot a montealing turnips. Sopped taking us out for er ting too tougo in Katie’s five in a bed, and used to tease t of it.
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