Chapter 51
CHILDHOOD'S FAVOURITES AND FAIRY STORIES by various authors. SECTION 51. A GOOD PLAY by Robert Louis Stevenson. We built a ship upon the stairs, all made of the back bedroom chairs, and filled it full of sofa pillows to go a-sailing on the billows. We took a saw and several nails and water in the nursery pails,
and Tom said, Let us also take an apple and a slice of cake, which was enough for Tom and me to go a-sailing on till tea. We sailed along for days and days and had the very best of plays, but Tom fell out and hurt his knee, so there was no one left but me. End of section 51
Recording by Rachel Linton, Bristol, UK
