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"I've written this book to remind me of all the horrible things that have happenend over the last year. Not as I'll need reminding. I can practically see them tattoed on my forehead.
One thing I have learnt is that it's a good job elephants never forget because it looks as if they're only ones in the entire world with any memory at all. Everybody at our house seemed to have forgotten me by the time I'd got one foot over the doorstep.
When I woke up this morning, I laid and stared at out Lucy, waiting for to open her eyes and say, "Hello, dear little sister!" She woke up, looks staight at me, and goes, "Aagh! Who're you?" I told her who I was and then she leaned over and prodded our Rose in the back. "'Ere," she says. "Do you know who this long, thin lass is in our bed?" Our Rose turns over, opens one eye and says, "Never seen her in my life."
She thinks she's so funny.
Next time I have to go away from home, I'm going to make a graven image of myself like it says in the bible and stick it in top of the wireless in the front room with my name written right across it. At least then they'll know I've been.
Or they could read this book.
The lively and loveable heroine of Private - Keep Out! Is horrified to hear she is being sent away to an Open Air School in Kent. But nothing dampen her spritis for long, and when a Bengal tiger appears on the School lawn, you may be sure this rebellious girl from Nottinghamshire has something to with it.
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