The Copper Beeches: Little Big Head

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Title: The Copper Beeches: Little Big Head
Author: gardnerhill
Word Count: 60
Rating: G
Warning: None.
Summary: How to deal with the child?

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And what of the horrendous child, a clue to his toxic family? Too young to be quietly shipped off to South America or Africa or some other Empire holding. Too inhumane to lose him at sea.

Perhaps young Master Rucastle will become the poshest member of the Baker Street Irregulars, once the lads train the cruelty out of his behavior.

Comments

[debriswoman]

Now, there's a thought...

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the roaches rose up? No, perhaps too sensational even for this new Watson....

[okapi1895.livejournal.com]

Yeah but he'll probably bunk with the boy from The Sussex Vampire at Eton.

[thesmallhobbit.livejournal.com]

Nah, never too young to be sent to sea!

[scfrankles.livejournal.com]

I love the thought of him becoming an Irregular ^__^

[laurose8.livejournal.com]

I have worried about him. I do hope this work. It's about the best solution I've heard.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Angry, vengeful cockroaches? That's more eldritch than poetic justice.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Ugh, you're right. The sad part is that such cruel, violent boys would turn into very typical colonial governors in Victorian England's holdings in African or Asian countries.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Better than leaving him to an orphanage.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

That's right, he'd make a good little powder monkey wouldn't he? (Or cannon wadding, if he pissed off enough sailors.)

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

Those grubby little street-rats might actually make a decent kid out of the nasty brat.

[gardnerhill.livejournal.com]

They had trouble at first, but the kid did a great job at keeping the roaches out of their hovel.

[godsdaisiechain.livejournal.com]

It might sell, though....