Us and the Bottle Man

Us and the Bottle Man

It began with Jerrys finishing off all the olives that were left, like a pig would do, as Greg said. His finishing the olives left us the bottle, of course, and there is only one natural thing to do with an empty olive-bottle when youre on a water picnic. That is, to write a message as though you were a shipwrecked mariner, and seal it up in the bottle and chuck it as far out as ever you can. Wed all gone over to Wecanicut on the ferry,Mother and Aunt Ailsa and Jerry and Greg and I,and we were picnicking beside the big fallen-over slab that looks just like the entrance to a pirate cave. We had a fire, of course, and a lot of things to eat, including the olives, which were a fancy addition bought by Aunt Ailsa as we were running for the ferry. When we asked her if she had any paper, she tore a perfectly nice leaf out of her sketch-book, and gave me her 3 B drawing-pencil to write with. It was very soft, and the paper was the roughish kind that comes in sketch-books, so that the writing was smeary and looked quite as if shipwrecked mariners had written it with charred twigs out of the fire. Wed done lots of messages when we were on other water picnics, but wed never heard from any of them, although one reason for that was that we never put our address on them. We decided we would this time, because Jerry had just been reading about a fisherman in Newfoundland picking up a message that somebody had chucked from a yacht in the Gulf of Mexico months and months before. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 12681
Author: Price, Edith Ballinger
Release Date: Jun 1, 2004
Format: eBook
Language: English