Teddy's Button by Amy LeFeuvre A Recruiting Sergeant Free Audiobooks Young Adults.
chapter three of teddy's button by amy lee fuveray this library vox recording is in the public domain recording by gabrielle c chapter three a recruiting sergeant it was sunday morning along a sweet scented lane with shady limes overhead and honeysuckle and wild roses growing on profusion on the hedges at each side walk teddy's mother holding her little sun tightly by the hands the bells of the village shorts were ringing out for the service and groups of two and three were passing in at the old lich gate mrs john was talking in her sweet clear voice to her boy and he letting his restless blue eyes move to and fro noting every bird on the hedges and every flower in the path kept bringing it back to his mother's face with a dreamy upward gaze i will try mother i fully will i will keep my hands tight in my pockets and my feet close together i will pretend i'm going to be shot by a fellow soldiers and then i really think that'll help me not to fidget i promise you i'll be good today and having received this protestation from him mrs john passed him to church with a relayed mind teddy's restless little body was a sore trial to anyone who sat next to him at church and many with electors that have been bestowed on him by sunday school teacher and pastor besides the temple ammunitions of his mother as said he quietly puts himself on the scene beside his mother he murmured to himself twenty soldiers in front of me twenty rifles pointing i feel saying like a rock i'll set my teeth and i can't even blink my eyes now i see the officer coming he's going to say present i'm not moving a muscle five minutes more they'll give me his active brain here received a check they are on the opposite side facing him was nancy seeing between her mother and old soul he was still in a sailor suit and with her dark mistivious brown eyes fixed deadly on him teddy could not remain unmoved beneath her gaze for long his little hands were working nervously in his coat pockets why did he stare at himself well he could stare back and then blue eyes and brown confronted each other for some moments with unblinking defiance in their gaze at lest teddy's patience gave way and twisting up his little features into her most grotesque grimace he mounted a hat sock to give her the full benefit of it instantly out came a little red tongue at him and at the staring piece of audacity he gasped out loud i hate you then as all eyes and the surrounding abuser turned upon him and his mother shot gaze met his teddy climbs into the roots of his hair and taking up a large prayer book he used it as a heal from his small antagonist during the remainder of the service as the congregation were leaving the church later on director made his way to young mrs platt who is lingering talking to her neighbor he was a gray haired gentle-faced man with a slow dreaming manner and speaking mrs john what has happened to make your little boy so forget himself this morning indeed sir i cannot say i really thought he was going to be good today i think you better come to tea with me this afternoon and we'll have a little talk together teddy looked up with thaw in his blue eyes he well knew that this was director's usual practice when any delinquent was bought before his notice but it did never yet fall into his lot to receive the invitation mr upton had his own way of doing things so people said and he had greater faith and reasoning with any culprits than schooling them whether they were grown men or women or children teddy's restless ways and church have been a trial to him for a long time and he felt that this morning's action must receive a check thank you sir respond to mrs john he shall come to you after school is over this afternoon and teddy completely sobered walked home beside his mother without uttering a word at half past four he sat on the rectory doorsteps looking into the cool blood hall in...