Children Quote by Josephine Tey
““Silas’s last book: mother lying-in with her eleventh upstairs, father laid-out after his ninth downstairs, eldest son lying to the Government in the cow-shed, eldest daughter lying with her lover in the hayloft, everyone else lying low in the barn. The rain dripped from the thatch, and the manure steamed in the midden. Silas never omitted the manure.””
![“Sonnet 9 Lady that in the prime of earliest youth, Wisely hast shun'd the broad way and the green, And with those few art eminently seen, That labour up the Hill of heav'nly Truth, The better part with Mary, and with Ruth, [ 5 ] Chosen thou hast, and they that overween, And at thy growing vertues…” quote by Milton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/5b7/milton-53599_quote_sonnet-9-lady-that-in-the-prime-of-earli_2846120.jpg)
