About this story
You forgot to feed his rabbits, and Luke found them dead this morning. The house fills with talk of Tom's schooling and your mother's suspicion of fingerprints in the sugar, but none of it buys you time before Tom notices the empty hutch and asks whether you kept your promise.
How it opens
The Floss pressed brown water past Dorlcote Mill while the great wheel shook the floor.
Mrs TulliverMaggie, come from the river before your hair becomes impossible again.
Flour dust softened the beams, the sacks, and Luke Moggs crossing the yard below.
Mr TulliverLet the child look at water; it teaches movement better than a sampler does.
Choose
Tom never has to sit still for curls.
I would rather learn how the mill wheel works.