The Little Lord Fauntleroy Suit (Excerpt)
“What the Earl saw was
a graceful, childish figure in a black velvet suit, with a lace collar, and
with love locks waving about the handsome, manly little face, whose eyes met
his with a look of innocent good-fellowship.” (Little Lord Fauntleroy)
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"Kevin hated
it. He really hated it. It was bad enough being seven years old. It was bad enough that his family were struggling,
working class Irish immigrants. It was bad
enough that he had the male trademark family ears, which where on the large
side and stood out from his head. These
things he might have handled with all the random deftness of his seven
years. What young Kevin Cooney really
could not manage was the damned suit. If his mother had not sewn it for him
with her own hands, he would not have worn it at all. But in 1898 all Kevin knew was that the suit
was important to his mother, and it was absolute torture to wear it."
(c) 2013 by Judith Cullen
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A Trio of My Father's Tales is my tribute to Fathers, containing three stories based on several family tales we used to begged my Dad to repeat over and over again around the kitchen table: "The
Little Lord Fauntleroy Suit", "Flying Down to Cour D'Alene", and "The
Skunk War."
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