Velvet Brown is a 14 years old girl live with her parents named Mr and Mrs Brown at Hullock. The family is not rich, her father own a shop and a slaughterhouse, where he kills farm animals. Her mother does the books and cooks the liver, kidneys and sheep's heads that remain after the steak is sold, she was also a swimmer for Channel. She also lives with her three sister.
Edwina, Malvolia, and Meredith, they are all exactly alike, like golden greyhounds. Their golden hair was sleek, their fine faces like antelopes, their shoulders still steady like Zulu women carrying water, and their bodies beneath the shoulders ripple with they move. They were seventeen, sixteen, and fifteen so Velvet is the youngest one in the family. Donald, a four years old boy lives with her family always sleep earlier than everyone else. Mi Taylor, who helps in the slaughterhouse, lives in a box stall with a rotting floor beside the old mare that the girls ride when they get up at dawn to deliver meat, he's also Velvet good friend.
One night, Velvet follows her mother to the shop downtown. There, they see a horse of someone escaping and running around the town, drawing attentions of some people. With a striking of hoofs, sparks flying on the flints, a piebald horse, naked of leather, wild and alone, slid almost to his haunches and stood stock-still, shaking and panting. It stares at Mrs Brown and gallops up the street toward Hullock.
Later, they found out that the horse belongs to Farmer Ede. Edwina has a dream that her mother hit by the piebald horse, but Mrs Brown returns of safely. In the morning, everyone in the house talks about the piebald's horse.
No comments:
Post a Comment