The Runaways (2014)
“The children, accustomed to the wet seasons and dry seasons of India, weather as predictable as the layers in a sandwich cake, couldn’t get used to this mixed-grill English weather when you didn’t know what you were going to bite into next. Yesterday had been warm and sunny and today the southwesterly gale from the sea was emptying buckets of water over a drowning world. Robert, with a heroism that astonished no one more than himself, got up early, put on his wet weather outfit of mackintosh, boots, and sou’wester, and went out into the garden to collect snails. He had a very special reason for wanting to earn a lot of money rather quickly and he remembered what Uncle Ambrose had said about early rising. But once he was out of doors he found it was fun collecting snails in the wet. There was so much water about that it was like being a diver at the bottom of the sea. It would be fun to be a diver and he was willing to bet the threepence he was likely to earn by the snails, that they e...arned a good deal more an hour than he was doing.MoreLess
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