Date of story -1910
Age of waugh – 7
Well it seems hard to say much on a seven year olds story ,this is a short cautionary tale on the errors of betting on a horse ,of Tom and Rupert ,a puliesman (policeman ) as the young Waugh put it is killed .Rupert goes on the run after a bet goes wrong and he kills a policeman later Tom finds him in the Inn hiding and takes him to the police .
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chap 11-
the next moring Tom took his seat in the grant stand while Rupert mounted sally (which was his horse) with the others to wate for the pistol shot which would anounse the start .
the race was soon over and Rupery had lost .What was he to do could he do the deed ? yes I’ll kill him in the night ,he thought .
The spelling are Waugh aged 7 -but that humour is there a bit mounted sally bit .
So does this live upto the old saying by Jesuit priest” show me the boy I’ll show you the man ”
I think it does ,but we ll find out more over next few weeks as I work through the section in Everyman collection called Juvenilia which covers his first tentive steps in the writing world .
Jun 15, 2011 @ 08:36:59
Hopefully the saying doesn’t hold true, I was an obnoxious mouthy child, the bane of my teachers day LOL.
Jun 15, 2011 @ 23:49:48
not sure be true for me either lol ,all the best stu
Jun 15, 2011 @ 09:58:47
I would be looking up to your thoughts for following weeks on Juvenelia.
Jun 15, 2011 @ 23:49:08
They ll be a few about seven stories in the section ,all the best stu
Jun 15, 2011 @ 10:57:23
Was the story written by a real 7-year old? Would love to know.
Jun 15, 2011 @ 23:48:15
It was Nana by the seven yr old Evelyn waugh ,all the best stu
Jun 15, 2011 @ 23:06:53
Hi-I just posted on Waugh’s 1953 short story “Love Among the Ruins-A Romance of the Near Future”- a funny dystopian social satire-I linked back to Waugh Wednesday in my post-I really like your project
Jun 15, 2011 @ 23:47:42
Hi mel thanks have replyed ,but ussing my blogger blog as open id not working ,all the best stu