Tommy looked up with the shadow of a smile, then, holding out his hand for the pennies, walked to the door. On the threshold, however, he paused for a moment, then returned to the kitchen, took the flannel which Daddy still held and vigorously rubbed his eyes.
“Shan’t let no-one see as ’ow I’ve been a-cryin’,” he explained, and ran off to fetch the errand.
After tea Tommy sat on Tregennis’s knee, while Tregennis took off the offending stockings, and rubbed the wet feet in front of the kitchen fire, the while a spirited conversation was carried on between the two.
“You shouldn’t never disobey your Mammy, Tommy.”
“Shan’t fetch no more errands, not never, for she.”
“An’ the ladies in the house, too.”
“Annie or Mabel can fetch they errands, I tell ee.”
“Your Mammy’s always workin’ so hard, too, Tommy. ’Eaps an’ ’eaps of work she do get through in the day.”
“I’ll not go never no more! Somebody else can fetch they cabbages and things.”