Chapter 2: Twenty To Eleven
In chapter two, Tommo remembers.......... how Charlie and Tommo would give their big brother Joe (but everyone calls him Big Joe), who is disabled, all of their food that they didn't want because he would eat anything and everything they gave him. One day Tommo and Charlie gave Big Joe a bag of rabbit droppings and told him they were sweets. He ate them all up and savored them in his mouth but when their mother found out she made them eat one each as a punishment. After that they didn't find it so funny. A few days later a bully was mean to Tommo about Big Joe, so they got into a fight. But the bully was much bigger that Tommo, so he got beaten up. But then Charlie comes and stands up for his brother and ends up with a punishment from Mr. Munnings - five strokes of the cane on his bare bum. Charlie was very brave and didn't cry out. Molly became their best friend from that moment. Tommo says it was s if she had become their sister, one of them, and their mother treated her like a daughter. One day the Colonel, who is basically like the mayor of the village, comes to their house and tells them that they must move out because no-one in their family was working, unless their mother started working as his wife's maid. She agrees, but that means that their Great-Aunt must look after them - but they all hate her, and call her Grandma Wolf behind her back. He remembers how as soon as she moved in, everything changed. Grandma Wolf told their mother what to do in her own house, and how she had brought them up with no manners. Their mother was too tired to fight back, so she just agreed. In this chapter we meet: the Colonel, Grandma Wolf and we find out more about Molly, Charlie, Tommo and Big Joe.
In chapter two, Tommo remembers.......... how Charlie and Tommo would give their big brother Joe (but everyone calls him Big Joe), who is disabled, all of their food that they didn't want because he would eat anything and everything they gave him. One day Tommo and Charlie gave Big Joe a bag of rabbit droppings and told him they were sweets. He ate them all up and savored them in his mouth but when their mother found out she made them eat one each as a punishment. After that they didn't find it so funny. A few days later a bully was mean to Tommo about Big Joe, so they got into a fight. But the bully was much bigger that Tommo, so he got beaten up. But then Charlie comes and stands up for his brother and ends up with a punishment from Mr. Munnings - five strokes of the cane on his bare bum. Charlie was very brave and didn't cry out. Molly became their best friend from that moment. Tommo says it was s if she had become their sister, one of them, and their mother treated her like a daughter. One day the Colonel, who is basically like the mayor of the village, comes to their house and tells them that they must move out because no-one in their family was working, unless their mother started working as his wife's maid. She agrees, but that means that their Great-Aunt must look after them - but they all hate her, and call her Grandma Wolf behind her back. He remembers how as soon as she moved in, everything changed. Grandma Wolf told their mother what to do in her own house, and how she had brought them up with no manners. Their mother was too tired to fight back, so she just agreed. In this chapter we meet: the Colonel, Grandma Wolf and we find out more about Molly, Charlie, Tommo and Big Joe.