National Velvet: Part 3

By ENID BAGNOLD

Mr Brown was swilling down the slaughter-house, as Mi Taylor was away for the day. The sound of the hose swished at the wooden partition which separated the slaughter-house from the sitting-room.

'He went beautifully!' said Velvet, and laying down a tiny paper horse on the table she wrenched at the gold band that bound her teeth back and laid it beside the horse.

'Father'll be in in a minute,' said Edwina warningly.

'It's going in again directly I hear a sound,' said Velvet and sitting down she swept the plate into her lap.

'Look at him,' she said lovingly, taking up the paper horse. 'I must unsaddle him and rub him down.' The heads were bent on the lesson books again and Velvet took a tiny bridle of cotton threads from the horse. Then goint to a shell-box on the sideboard she brought it to the table.

'It's just supper,' said Mally. 'you'll have to clear.'

Publisher: Mammoth

Price: $16.95

Age group: 9 plus yrs


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