Calico Classics Illustrated: Great Expectations

Calico Classics Illustrated: Great Expectations — page 3
backward Bring me a file and some food in the morning He gave me a shake and I nodded If you say a word about this he growled I will cut out your heart and liver and roast them for dinner He gave me another shake There’s a young man with me who is good at getting to a boy’s heart and liver A boy may be warm in his bed tucked up and safe but that young man will creep in Don’t fail to bring what I ask Now get you home He set me down and limped away through the gravestones hugging his shivering body Nettles and brambles caught at his clothes like the hands of dead people stretching up from the graves I looked around for the horrible young man When I saw no sign of him I ran home without stopping When I arrived home the blacksmith forge was shut up and Joe was sitting alone in the 6