CRUNDLE CASTLE
(Early story from The Rectory Magazine: circa 1850)
CHAPTER ONE
`LOVE ME LOVE MY DOG'
`MY dear Miss Primmins' said the kind and comfortable lady, Mrs Cogsby, a burly good-natured body, engaged in that most
delightful occupation of gardening on a summer evening, which consisted of amputating a few dead rosebuds with an enormous
and sanguinary looking knife, apparently constructed originally for the rather unusual purpose of murdering crocodiles, but
which she employed on the present occasion with no more apparent emotion than if it were the most delicate lady's penknife.
`My dear Miss Primmins, you mustn't think of going a step further, before come in, and had a glass of elder wine.
Besides you haven't seen my darling Guggy this age, and he's so improved!'' The said darling Guggy was a rather over-grown
boy of about 6 years old, the delight of his mother, and the utter detestation of all the neighbourhood, who were miserably
victimised by Mrs Cogsby for whole evenings together, admiring him and hearing of his performances. He was always carried
into the room by his mother's express desire, though it was noticed by the more observant of her visitors that the nurse only
took him up outside the door, indeed it was impossible for any human nurse to have carried him 10 yards without dropping.
`Rely, Mem,began the present victim, a sickly decayed looking young lady, of considerably over
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