On Beulah Height. Reginald Hill

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      BETSY ALLGOOD [PA/WW/4.6.88]

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      The day they drowned Dendale I were seven years old.

      I’d been three when government said they could do it, and four when Enquiry came out in favour of Water Board, so I remember nowt of that.

      I do remember something that can’t have been long after, but. I remember climbing up ladder to our barn loft and my dad catching me there.

      ‘What’re you doing up here?’ he said. ‘Tha knows it’s no place for thee.’

      I said I were looking for Bonnie, which were a mistake. Dad had no time for animals that didn’t earn their keep. Cat’s job was keeping rats and mice down, and all that Bonnie ever caught was a few spiders.

      ‘Yon useless object should’ve been drowned with rest,’ he said. ‘You come up here again after it and I’ll get shut of it, nine lives or not.’

      Before I could start mizzling, СКАЧАТЬ