Silly game- anyone up for it?

Nope, very old though....[wink|

Sounds like the boy who cried wolf. (Aesop?)
Yes, it is, unless someone else has plagiarised it!


"There are some fields near Manchester,well known the the inhabitants as Green Heys Fields, through which runs a public footpath to a little village about two miles distant."

Sounds familiar. Is it in the Bible?

Oh dear rosesarered nearly killed this one stone dead!
I'll have another try and see who recognises this:
"There once was a shepherd boy who was bored as he sat on the hillside watching his sheep."

sorry everyone, this answer was meant for the Kansas book I posted in wrong place !

only thing I can think of is The Wizard Of Oz?Or maybe All The Pretty Horses?

The Crow Road, by Iain Banks.

"This is the saddest story I have ever heard."

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qon4S5pHptY

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabrel Garcia Marquez

"It was the day my Grandmother exploded"

(sorry grannies!!!)

The Stranger's Child by Alan Hollinghurst.

"Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

'She'd been lying in the hammock reading poetry for over an hour'

No! It's appointment with Venus! A sad story about trying to rescue the last Allderny cow, before the Nazis exported the,

It's not Le petit Prince is it?

I would love to but I don't think cookery books count. I did so enjoy reading all the others though

Grr! Eternelles!

Can I start with an ending?
' Allons, montes a la maison erernelles'

Would you like to start us off with another one then Hebrideanlady?

ladybird9 started the baby P thread, I don't think you will get a reply

I've no idea. But I'd hate to see thread go... Tell please

That should have read "your first line".
Care to enlighten us??
Maybe this thread has run its course, but I'd hate to see it go out on unanswered question!

Truman Capote? ladybird??
I'm afraid your has got me stumped too

in cold blood quotes by Truma Cotey

"Perspective I need to get Perspective"

You've got me there Ian42 - any one know it? (If not, you'll have to put us out of our misery!)

The Voyage of the "Dawn Treader". C S Lewis.

"In those days I did my father's bidding.

Wives and Daughters, Elizabeth Gaskell.

"There was boy called Eustace Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."