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Blackberries Blackberries by Leslie Norris, in Sudden Fiction International. Copyright * 1970 by Leslie Norris. Reprinted by permission of Leslie Norris. 1 Mr. Frensham opened his shop at eight-thirty, but it was past nine when the woman and child went in. The shop was empty and there were no footmarks on the fresh sawdust floor. The child listened to the HYPERLINK file:///D:\\Reading3\\content\\chapter13\\word\\134word01.wav melancholy sound of the bell as the door closed behind him and he HYPERLINK file:///D:\\Reading3\\content\\chapter13\\word\\134word02.wav scuffed his feet in the yellow sawdust. He had never been in this shop before. He was going to HYPERLINK file:///D:\\Reading3\\content\\chapter13\\phrase\\134phra01.html have his hair cut for the first time in his life, except for the times when his mother had trimmed it gently behind his neck. 2 Mr. Frensham was sitting in a large chair, reading a newspaper. He could make the chair turn around, and he HYPERLINK file:///D:\\Reading3\\content\\chapter13\\word\\134word03.wav spun twice about in it before he put down his paper, smiled, and said, Good morning. 3 He was an old man, thin, with flat white hair. He wore a white coat. One gentleman, he said, to have his HYPERLINK file:///D:\\Reading3\\content\\chapter13\\word\\134word04.wav locks HYPERLINK file:///D:\\Reading3\\content\\chapter13\\phrase\\134phra02.html shorn. 4 He put a board across the two arms of his chair, lifted the child, and sat him on it. How are you, my dear? And your father, is he well? he said to the childs mother. 5 He took a sheet from a cupboard on the wall and wrapped it about the childs neck, HYPERLINK file:///D:\\Reading3\\content\\chapter13\\word\\134word05.wav tucking it into his collar. The sheet covered the child completely and hung almost to the floor. Cautiously the boy moved his hidden feet. He could see the bumps they made in the cloth. He moved his finger against the inner surface of the sheet and made a six with