Play up boys ! ..

I wore my long tweed coat in the bookshop - 

I felt Henty would approve - 

I turned the pages of his bold adventures - 

With Cochrane the Dauntless -

Tales of Daring and Danger - 

Among Malay Purates -

The Tiger of Mysore -

Neill said he had read Henty at his school -

I pictured him, reading about a plucky lad quelling a mutiny - 

Reading by torchlight in the icy dormitory - 

Football next day on the muddy field -

The headmaster's bellow - 

Play up boys ! -

Wednesday 22 October 2020

Puddletown Bookshop

Puddletown 

Dorset