APPENDIX A

Butterflies

a short story by Patricia Grace

The grandmother plaited her granddaughters (0) hair and then she said, Get your lunch. Put it in your bag. Get your apple. You come (1) straight back after school, straight home here. Listen to the teacher, she said. Do what she say. Her grandfather was out on the step. He walked down the (2) path with her and out 5 on to the footpath. He said to a neighbour, Our granddaughter goes to school. She lives with (3) us now. Shes fine, the neighbour said. Shes (4) terrific with her two plaits in her hair. And (5) clever, the grandfather said. Writes every day in her book! Shes fine, the neighbour said. 10 The grandfather waited (6) with his granddaughter by the (7) crossing and then he said, Go to school. Listen to the teacher. Do what she say. (8) When the granddaughter came home (9) from school her grandfather was (10) hoeing round the cabbages. Her grandmother was picking beans. They stopped their work. 15 You bring your book home? the grandmother asked. Yes. You write your story? Yes. Whats your story? 20 About the (11) butterflies. Get your book, then. Read your story. The granddaughter (12) took her book from her schoolbag and opened (13) it. I killed all the butterflies, she said. This is (14) me and this is all the butterflies! And your teacher like your story, did she? 25 I dont know. What your teacher say? She said butterflies are beautiful creatures. They hatch out and fly (15) in the sun. The butterflies visit all the (16) pretty flowers, she said. They (17) lay their eggs and then they die. You dont kill butterflies, thats what she said. 30 The grandmother (18) and grandfather were quiet for a long time, and their granddaughter, holding the book, stood (19) quite still in the warm garden.

Because you see, the grandfather said, your teacher, she buy all her cabbages from the supermarket and thats (20) why.

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