a purple velvet chair
“Now said he I promised you some proper boots.
The boy could think of no finer thing but knowing how much boots cost he said he’d rather spend the money on a present for his mother and for this received a powerful clip across the back of the head and then were hauled by the ear across the road to what they call a GENERAL STORE.
Soon the boy were sitting in a purple velvet chair with a cove in a suit and fancy collar attending him yes Sir no Sir Mr. Power Sir.
This lad will be wanting a pair of elastic sided boots with Cuban heels.”
—Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang, 2000.
The boy could think of no finer thing but knowing how much boots cost he said he’d rather spend the money on a present for his mother and for this received a powerful clip across the back of the head and then were hauled by the ear across the road to what they call a GENERAL STORE.
Soon the boy were sitting in a purple velvet chair with a cove in a suit and fancy collar attending him yes Sir no Sir Mr. Power Sir.
This lad will be wanting a pair of elastic sided boots with Cuban heels.”
—Peter Carey, True History of the Kelly Gang, 2000.
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