Explore "Mary Olivier: a Life" by May Sinclair on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
It was the last week of the midsummer holidays. Mark and Dank had gone to stay for three days at Aunt Bella's, and on the second day they had been sent home.
Mamma and Roddy were in the garden when they came. They were killing snails in a flowerpot by putting salt on them. The snails turned over and over on each other and spat out a green foam that covered them like soapsuds as they died.