Anime - Tommy

TOMMY was once sitting on the bench close to the end of the lane. By his aspect was once a basin tied up in a cotton handkerchief; in the buttonhole of his coat there was once a sprig of sweet-william. The ladies from the massive residence got here and stood nonetheless in the front of him, staring at him rudely, however he did no longer speak.

“Tommy, are -you tired?" they asked.

"Yes," Tommy answered, crossly," I'm very tired, and father's working in the fields, and I have obtained to take him his dinner earlier than I go to the fair."

“Why do not the servants take it?”

“Servants!” stated Tommy scornfully ; " we've got no servants. We are not prosperous people!”

"Wouldn't you like to be prosperous ? " the eldest sister asked, whilst the two little ones walked slowly spherical Tommy, searching at the feather in his hat ; he had put it there so that he would possibly seem to be clever when he went on to the village.

"No, it is too expensive," stated Tommy, shaking his head; “rich humans have to purchase such a lot of things, and to put on high-quality clothes, and they cannot have dinner in the fields."

“My father has his dinner in a room," stated the girl.