Personal Narrative: The Leek Cattle Market Town

It was the first day of the last week of the summer break, and I couldn’t wait for school to start; I missed my friends. As I sat down to eat my breakfast that morning, my mum surprised me when she said, “Hurry up with your breakfast, because I want you to catch the 9.45 bus into town to get the school uniform order from old Mr. Worthington’s store, and if you don’t dilly dally, you’ll be back before it starts raining cats and dogs again.”
Leek is the closest town to our farm; about 6 miles away. It’s a Market Town, meaning that every Monday, which happened to be that day. Farmers from the surrounding area rose early to load their trailers with the livestock they hoped to sell, and as they headed out to the Leek Cattle Market grounds, where the auction took place, most prayed for a good price.
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By the time I came along, a degree of order had retuned to his life, for they were all in school, and much more cooperative to the order our disciplinarian our father demanded. Once more he felt in control of his life and environment. He was more relaxed and even demonstrated some affection towards me. Which I believe was painful for my siblings to watch and caused them to feel jealousy. His business had grown and his plan to buy a farm and take up farming was becoming more of a possibility, however our mum, had become very involved in their current business, and as a consequence my siblings were saddled with the task of caring for their new baby sister, the one who got to sit on dads knee, and who didn’t get anywhere near the number of spankings as they. My very existence interrupted their freedom, causing them ridicule, even rejection by friends and