Muddy Boots And Silk Stockings (2011) - Plot & Excerpts
With their packed lunches stuffed into their dungaree pockets and long-handled shovels over their shoulders they set off. Ignoring the circuitous route of the track which wound its way up to The Tops, they struck directly uphill. It took almost an hour of hard climbing to reach the summit. Just below it, on the leeward side, they could see the lichen-covered slates which roofed the byre. Out of breath and sweating after the steep climb, they spread themselves on the wiry grass. When they had regained their breath, first Annie and then Georgina unwrapped and hungrily ate their sandwiches and drank the milky tea in Annie’s flask, saving Georgina’s for later. ‘Reckon we owe ourselves a kip,’ Annie said, settling back, closing her eyes against the sunlight and relaxing her aching muscles. Soon her even breathing suggested to Georgina that she was already asleep. Georgina lay on her stomach, elbows bent, chin in cupped hands, her eyes on the sweep of land dropping away to the east.
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