A Pest of a Boy: Sir Robert Carey Mysteries
By P F Chisholm
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Sir Robert Carey when he was eight years old -- was he a quiet, studious boy?
Er... no. He plays tricks on everyone, runs his tutor ragged, and is utterly heedless. He's also charming, persuasive, full of energy. and an absolute nuisance to his loving parents, Henry Carey Lord Hunsdon and Lady Ann Carey.
This short story introduces the young Robin and leads on to a second story, A Boy in Trouble.
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A Pest of a Boy - P F Chisholm
A Pest of a Boy
Sir Robert Carey Mysteries
P F Chisholm
Published by Patricia Finney Books, 2019.
This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.
A PEST OF A BOY
First edition. January 13, 2019.
Copyright © 2019 P F Chisholm.
Written by P F Chisholm.
A PEST OF A BOY (Young Carey 1)
By P F Chisholm (Patricia Finney)
Sir, sir, my lord!
It sounded like the man was on the verge of tears. May I speak to you please, sir. Now?
Henry Carey, Lord Baron Hunsdon turned to see his family tutor running towards him, limping, his soft scholar's cap lost, his hair on end and covered with something brown, sticky and smelly even at that distance, more stains on his gown and hose and a certain look of crazed outrage on his face which tipped Hunsdon off as to what this was about. He sighed deeply.
He had come home to Hunsdon manor after weeks at court where his cousin and half-sister was being even more difficult than usual. He had hoped to get in some hawking, see his wife and take his leave of her before he went north to Berwick-upon-Tweed and his new governorship.
All right, Mr Knollys,
he said, What has Robin done now?
It took a while to find the boy. He wasn't in the stables as he usually was when he escaped from his tutor. He wasn't playing football, he wasn't raiding the kitchens or up in the attics trying to decapitate some stray wooden saint statues with an old bastard sword from the last century that was taller than him, far too heavy but still sharp.
Eventually they tracked Robin down to the river, where a pack of boys ranging in age from
seven to eleven and in rank from stableboy to lord, were playing some violent game in the river with a bag of rags. Hunsdon stood and watched for a while, trying to work out what the rules were, if there were any. It seemed that if a boy got the bag of rags he tried to swim to the other side of the river while all the other boys attacked him and tried to drown him. Hunsdon couldn't see any weapons so he assumed that the usual rule in football had