![]() ![]() In the eyes of the Lord all men were equal, he said, and so it should be on earth.My mother did not stop him, saying she was well rid of his slow ways. My father hugged me and said it was his duty to go and fight so that all men could be free. I think my father was glad when the war came and he could escape.I did not want him to go. arted in her rages.This was how we lived, muddling along, ruled by my mother’s temper. Ned used to stand up to my mother so that she was much thw. Only one brother, Ned, survived, he being six summers older than I. ![]() My mother gave birth more times than the cow, though the calves outlived near all my brothers and sisters, who went back into the earth like unfolded flowers. He was a tall man without a grain of ill humour, unlike my mother who was filled to the brim with anger.We had a smallholding on the edge of the Forest of Savernake, with chickens and four sheep and a cow for milk. To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt: ![]()
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