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It was very burdensome to Ursula, that she was the eldest of

the family By the time she was eleven, she had to take to

school Gudrun and Theresa and Catherine The boy, William,

always called Billy, so that he should not be confused with his

father, was a lovable, rather delicate child of three, so he

stayed at hoirl, called

Cassandra

The children went for a time to the little church school just

near the Marsh It was the only place within reach, and being so

s her children there,

though the village boys did nickname Ursula "Urtler", and Gudrun

"Good-runner", and Theresa "Tea-pot"

Gudrun and Ursula were co-, sleepy body and her endless chain of fancies, would have

nothing to do with realities She was not for them, she was for

her own fancies Ursula was the one for realities So Gudrun

left all such to her elder sister, and trusted in her

ireat tenderness for her

co- tolike a fish in the sea, perfect within theOther existence did not trouble her

Only she believed in Ursula, and trusted to Ursula

The eldest child was veryones Especially Theresa, a sturdy,

bold-eyed thing, had a faculty for warfare

"Our Ursula, Billy Pillins has lugged "

Then the Brangwen girls were in for a feud with the

Pillinses, or Phillipses