Dancing in the Moonlight
“He bent and fiddled with the cord that bound his trousers below the knee to gain himself a few moments, straightening again with difficulty.
Damn it, but he was feeling his age. Once upon a time he could have done what was expected of him tonight as easy as winking, but he simply couldn’t drum up the strength or wherewithal now. He looked to where Ernie and Donald and another lad Tom Crawford had got in for the job were manhandling a large, cumbersome wooden crate onto the dock and sighed h...eavily. The others were young and strong – that was what was needed here, and they knew that as well as he did, although no one had said. Tom had explained the night before that he paid on tonnage for the unloading and it would be split four ways, but the others weren’t getting a square deal with him. He had to go and do his bit, but he didn’t know how he was going to put one foot in front of the other.
Ernie glanced at his father as Walter emerged from the shadows where he’d supposedly gone to relieve himself.MoreLess
Damn it, but he was feeling his age. Once upon a time he could have done what was expected of him tonight as easy as winking, but he simply couldn’t drum up the strength or wherewithal now. He looked to where Ernie and Donald and another lad Tom Crawford had got in for the job were manhandling a large, cumbersome wooden crate onto the dock and sighed h...eavily. The others were young and strong – that was what was needed here, and they knew that as well as he did, although no one had said. Tom had explained the night before that he paid on tonnage for the unloading and it would be split four ways, but the others weren’t getting a square deal with him. He had to go and do his bit, but he didn’t know how he was going to put one foot in front of the other.
Ernie glanced at his father as Walter emerged from the shadows where he’d supposedly gone to relieve himself.MoreLess
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