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Anuradha Muralidbaran SOUTH AFRICA ‘The Festive Season in a Part of Africa Tod Collins GLOSSARY activites: Before Reading acriviries: After Reading ABOUT THE AUTHORS ABOUT THE BOOKWORMS LIBRARY 26 31 36 4 4 50. 33deme Appmb aarp pur ‘sxe sys ovuT dus! ‘sexoures niaya kee yped Aay, “axe9[ 01 pear Sunae8 mou are 419 IsNp JO spnojd ‘auog pue UPys AUO st ays fsy>Vs se UY se e so] pue sue 1opy ‘sade pos pur sysoy> (py aim pF v purus smog ur amped v aye + 89s 01 ]UeM am Tey 208 Ajo am sowowiog ¢sn Buyer exmoid ayi s} Jeym Ing ’S} 4 aqAew pue ‘sprom puesnoy e yom si esmyaid @ Aes AayL “spue] 18430 woy ejdoed pue seoe/d ‘uods pue sea Jo so1oyd jo 1yny siadedsmau ‘sieis uy pue uo}yses Jo 1Iny seulzeBeus yeuioius ay) uo seBed qam ~ e1aymssona sydesBoroyd aie e1ey) pyom sAepor uy nassog sajiual kg poses *PH2BIN wos) 1098 oe VLLY 1438 yPaabopo4y 2Y), sxousea] aBenBur] yst[Bug 107 Yooq B Joy suoRESNILE Isxy sty are 98941 “UBIsap se1peILY> puE ‘uOLeMITTE ‘uonERSNT! 3400 uy Bunjsom ‘sxvad Aue 10 wsHase aouEp—OIy & us0q sey aq] “eduuayy Ur IqoxteN wr saAqy MOU pur “Wsn ‘oBeaIy> ut 10g sem 0,8u04N SuTEANY YOLVULSATH FHL NO FLON “Tp a8ed uo A1esso/8 ayy ut x0 sarioas ay3 ur poure|dxa soyare aze sprom asoqp [Ty “(HYMNS woxy apurjy ‘afdurexa 103) sofendury sy10 WO] spiom May v axe oat soU038 oWIOS Ut pue (ystBuq ueoayy yanog ut poory ‘ajdurexe 30}) yst8ug jo Aries zeinonaed e ur punoy Aquo) SN Uv Ivy SpyOM Os|e are BIULL, “ayy year ut asn Aqjemoe pjnom sraisereyp srayp aeyp oenBury uuayods aya paruasardaz sa1s01s yeuris0 ayp Jo suoysne oy Moy st sty “(st “oun ‘su sv yons sqioa Azeyixne ano Butavay ‘a[durexs 04) SWIO} prepuers-tou asn soUaLIOs sa1s018 aso ur szaiseeY> oy1 pue “pyom aya UL uayods ysiug jo sonata Aueur axe axoyy POVAONVT AHL NO LONto cool, modern hotels in a city miles away. They are photojournalists. One of them, sun-burned and hot, dressed in a shirt and jeans, kneels down on the dusty ground to take some Photographs of the girl before he leaves. In the pocket of his shirt is a protein bar, soft from the sun, uneaten, untouched, forgotten. He doesn't stop to think about the uneaten bar in his pocket and the starving girl. He is only one man, Whar can one man do in a world where life is cruel, and Bovernments cannot or will not help their people? And who wants to stay in a place like this, with its dirt and its terrible smells, if they can drive away from it? ‘The girl caught the photographer's eye, She was in the middle of a group of boys, fighting just as strongly as they were, when the food trucks arrived, But she was pushed clown and fell under the boys feet. The boys stepped all over her, and when she could move again, the bags of tice were all gone. She stayed there, red-eyed, moving her fingers slowly over the dusty ground, 36 The journalist takes his last photo, returns to America with his bag full of films. One of his photographs of the girl sells and is placed on the front cover of a news magazine. “You've caught the face of hunger in Africa,’ the news editor tells him, Ee The girl stayed there, red-eyed, moving her fingers slowly over the dusty ground.“sag sjoayp say sorrumpe pur “roy puryag puey AaBuny Aasnp Aap ayy anoge Xun 10M saop “ydessoroyd ays uF par aya ae so1eys ays Og “[e94 St saBeuda1 styp apisuT roSuny oy,1, XY aonew a,usdop a] Zsaajastuatp aazeas 01 oprap oya adood pur ‘oares oy a[doad aaey ppom sno saop Ay pis jjestay ayeut 01 3vontp 294 Wop Ja8uy Joy sind ays “y>nU 001 srea ays jt pur ‘sava ays rey mnoge [nzozeD st ays “Jppow! 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PHOM 242 PunoLy 10d] SoLLOIS :tAwAFI aq] MOL] SOULLeonard ADRIENNE M FRATER ee A story from New Zealand, retold by Jennifer Bassett Women often knit gifts for their families. Wives knit socks or scarves for their husbands; grandmothers knit little jackets for their children’s babies. Buying a gift is quick and easy, but making @ gift with your own hands takes longer. And if, like Leonard's wife, your hands are old and stiff and crooked with arthritis, perhaps knitting is not the best thing to do “Il knit him a scarf. Yes. I'll knit him a scarf the same colour as his eyes, I wait intil my niece takes me shopping. ‘I want to buy some wool,’ I tell her. I want to knit Leonard a scarf?” ‘But you don’t knit,’ she says. She looks at my crooked hands and quickly looks away again. ‘And Leonard doesn’t go out any more.’ Bur Petra takes me to the wool shop anyway. ‘I want to buy some blue wool,’ I say to the woman in the shop, ‘The colour of my husband’s eyes.’ I touch a ball of blue wool that feels as soft as a bird’s feathers, ‘Isn't this a little too fine?” asks the woman in the shop. ‘No, it’s just right.’ eee Later, tired after my shopping, I lie back in my armchair and have a little sleep. When the car stops outside, I am still half asleep, and in my mind I see a younger Leonard standing at the door. His back is as straight as a piece of wood, and his blue eyes smile. ‘Is anyone home?’ Dan calls. I wake with a jump. “Here we are, Mr Phipps,’ Dan says to Leonard. Holding Leonard’s arm, Dan walks him into the house. “Thank you, Dan.’ I take off Leonard’s coat and push some hair away from his eyes. We eat dinner in a silence that aches. I drink red wine and Leonard eats with a spoon. Then, after I've washed him and put him to bed, I sit down to knit. The needles are silver. The needles are cold. I take the paper cover off the wool, find one end of it, and try again and again to make the first stitch. Lam listening to music by Beethoven, and it is nearly halfway through before I have finished the first row of stitches. My fingers hurt, and they won't do what I tell them. But I have begun. eee Leonard and I met at a concert in Auckland. He was tall, with blond hair then. 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Leonard puts his hand up and touches the wool, and for one short moment, his eyes come alive again, ~ “Yes,” he wants to tell me. “Yes, ‘The scarf is soft, The scarf is blue, The scarf is us.” ” he wants to say u Pat Fill 06 Tears LAURI KUBUITSILE oF A story from Botswana, retold by Jennifer Bassett Luck comes and goes like a thief in the night, here one minute, gone the next. Some women want children but can’t have them; others have children but can’t keep them. Some babies are born into loving families; others never sleep in their own mother’s arms, and never know their father’s name. ‘And in the end, which of them is lucky, and which unlucky? Who can say? Faas he wind whispers through the walls of the little wooden house, blowing the flame of the smoky lamp from side to side. An old man sits, resting his arms on his legs, looking down at the wooden floor, How long will it be, he thinks, The end must come soon, it must. Across the room from him sits a woman. She is a stranger and does not belong in this house. Everything about her is different ~ she looks different, she sounds different, she smells different. She has sat here in this poor little house for seven hours, but still the wind carries her expensive perfume, a smell from another world. 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JYpo ay) Woy Aud e Akay Aayp souNoUIOg asm at ‘uoos autos asnuw pua ayy “sxury ays ‘oq a1 [EM Buoy MOPT “3009 wapoom ay Ie UMOp BUPjOo] ‘IeyD Uapoom plo ue uo sits ‘003 ‘oys ang em Azoaa UF JuaZayIp axe Ue PIO ay el sway, JO yn 10 V PHO 247 Punouy WoL] sa140}§ *tuAp] 241 MOA) SOLD TL2 &rtes from the Heart: Stories from Around the World A child soho will never see the long feet of his father or the curved eyebrow of his mother, A Pot Full of Tears 15 this only son and his barren wife, but a very large sum of money for the old man in his wooden house. But he will not see that money. It is not for him. ‘Months later, the only son and his barren wife have a small boy; a baby with long feet and a curved eyebrow. ‘They are happy. There is a grandson in the house, and the family name will continue. The boy will eat well every day, he will have the love of a family around him. He will never be hungry, he will never know war, he will never have to live in fear and in pain, without friends, without hope, without love. o* Years are gone, and a young married woman with a curved eyebrow cooks rice in a pot over an open flame. She looks at her small daughter, who shakes her fat little feet at the sky. And like a dream that never ends, the woman sees the long feet of a child who will never know where they came from. The tears run slowly down her cheek, falling, lost, in the steaming pot of rice. QOeAaBuny NOX “ard aUIO9 ‘Ue PIO, saity 02 ano paypes uays ‘arya e JO} WuIy payprem ays “payyem ay kem ay ur uada ‘sada sry ur ‘aoey sty ur JoBuNy sem azoy], “amp os pur ‘preyunap v Sueur yaans v asnf sem apy ‘af Jay paSuey> rey sep ve — Auuog ow asTy ays UayM Avp ayp paxaquiowias UENY -sBuryp sty [Te plos ays uatp puy “aaaris ay) UO INO WY Pay>ry ays pue UaUT soy20 YM wWAM ays — ax] sty pours eduET, “1YBNoy? ays Sueuiom siyp Yala sear weap v aney ay I,uED yyy “eAUE, ayta-x9 sty Ioge pares [Hs ay Aya pueaszapun rou pynod ays ing “WHY paisnay uN puE ‘ueUI pood e sem {uUOg ae Xpiomb pres wen ,durtog Syse nox Sump prey e sta, < 271] 7aNAq & aaeY pu syooq uiaya Apnas ues dayp azoym aovfd v ‘ueN “ary 01 adefd v aavy 01 way? quem | “sBnap BuNypas pue suns Burkx3e9 skoq, Aur quem 3,u0p | pure ‘uoIsBury Jo siaans ay2 uO sZop d91| BUA pu Buray] siyBnep Au aUEM 3,uOp | “uEAplTyD ay 107 poo8 aq pfhom a asnesaq saorBe ays, “soda s,uEN wou kee payoo] Kauog .11 inoge Burysawos pres T, eAPEOITE PAULL. []1 NOX, Apmoys pres UEN , + * OS, ‘op on Burka ur] ey spueasropun ays adoy J “194 240] | “394 1OF Your OO sF-sIy oq ey MOU DU aAva] 01 BUIO3 ays Sf IYBNOYD ay ‘PIO “pres Autiog ,‘auo zoypour pring pur 420 qa aq, (@AAl] 01 Suto am azayyy, ZNOS pu out inoge rey Ing, 1 aSHOH 241 3U 234] B]AsMY 02 aAeY 2,L10M Skog axp puE “SIRs ay YO 2q [II A2yL, AuUoS pres “usxpy ayp 105 pod st 3], AYA, “URN pormnoys ,reYA\, <98noY aYp ur ary uauppyD oy pue vAUB]. 39] 03 BuI08 J, Kpramb soy 0 pres Auuog “ue, “ar aaey pjnoys UDAp|HYp sly pur eduey. azta-xo s,AuUOS rey OYA Ho9AK29q, peppep days ep auo puy “soypuey omi J0j ySnouo iq sem Yyorym ‘snoy e Butpying azom ayef pue op “11 01 s018e pjnom URN jt MOU 0U rp ay ang “Ue]d Mou ev pey AUUO *uoisBuyy 40 S}29NS BY} UO Je}/0S-yN4 B ‘UEN 2x1] ~ uosied yo puyy jejoads Aion @ Ajug geoueyo puoges e yey) ay!) 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They agreed to help him and took him in. 8a ‘Two months later a clean, tidy man in a light brown suit stopped by her stall and said, ‘How are you, Madam He gave a big smile, showing his white teeth. ‘Hlere’s something for you,’ he said, and held out two 1,000 dollar bills. ‘Thank you,’ Nan said, ‘but why you giving me so much money?” “You helped me when I needed someone, he said quietly: ‘You brought me back to life.” Nan stared at him, not understanding. ‘T'was that old drunkard on the streets,’ he explained, ‘and you gave me food every day. ‘What!’ said Nan. ‘I happy to see that you alright now.” ‘The House C Sonny came by every day after that, and every day Nan gaye him some fruit. 19clydy isn su0KksaA9 Keme Suuuns ou Buideosa ou —szaqpyos ae ag “a[doad peq no uvaj> asnur ay, Y98LL, PEW sINOYs ,‘poo8 st eM NG, *sarao s,hoq ay uvyp J9pno] st are aya yBnonp sry amo yo astou oy, t0a JapHoy & st a79y32 MON djay * ++ aur djppy*** ou ‘ou ‘ou ‘ye - + + aseayd ‘aseayg, ‘spsom oyp zvoy asn{ 29aj s,es0q mo st sty.L, -dnos s,1081y, peyy punoy sey diysuns sardootjay y “sung smo zou ‘sun Awiae quoutusas08 aye asoy, ‘purasiapun | Ajuappns -e10qq stadsty 2°“ IEYA, ‘ore syoyzo ayy pure sa81], pep axoya ‘sn puryog sung Aavay Jo punos ay saws qusuOUT ey IY om mouy nox per sty dons, ‘ses exog “oxeay, “a1 op ued ayy ypartaxo syeads | °° * djay 10y + keme uns sv © + * SI9IpIOs s.uaLUUaA0 ay 30} OO] * ued 9g\ ‘PUDLy AU ay,NOg, “SpIOM asoy YAM AvmE 90H avomyy Aw ut ouoas aYf_ Yoq sh []P{ sn oy Udy, £003 NOX [194 [| Aap 40, “stodsrya vrog ,asnU NOX, “&a9 | Sty Op 3,ue> I, -preage wt] ‘plo? W.] dois agy “saan yp OWT soypany viog ysnd 7 Mppmd -auope are ay “ur puryoq yong Kus uo sao 43942 [29 uv2 | ‘ous Busqprom aun Koy} ‘s004] ay spavmoy 4aq qsnd | ‘wn §240¢ Busp]OFL sz any, 0G PHO aqi Punoay moa) sousors avez] aq Mod] SOLED HT26 Callus ey Callus JANET TAY HUI CHING a A story from Malaysia, retold by Jennifer Bassett Some people don't find it easy to talk about their feelings. If they have never talked about them, it can be hard to begin. And year after year, it gets harder and harder ~ Just like a callus on the skin. A wife watches while her husband packs his suitcase. A great change is coming into their lives, but maybe it is easier to talk about the suitcase he watched him pack his clothes and his wedding suit into his‘old suitcase. She could smell his cologne. When did he last wear cologne? Ah, at their wedding, It smelt strange then too. She never wore perfume. What use 's perfume to a working woman like her? And married women who wear perfume are looking for lovers, trying to catch other men. That’s what people say. She already had a good, hardworking husband with a shop of his own, What more can a woman want? She began to feel better now, thinking about her good luck. Lost in her thoughts, she jumped at the sound of the suitcase shutting, His eyes went slowly round the room, looking for ~ what? She looked up at him. <{ put out all the clothes that you need,’ she said. ‘And you can’t get any more in. It’s a small suitcase.” He looked at her for a moment. A Chinese gil like any other Chinese girl— small eyes, flat nose, smooth pale skin, and long straight hair, now pinned up tidily, in the way of married Chinese ladies. She wore her usual light blue samfoo. No, she was not a beauty, he thought, but she was a hard worker. His family was right when they said to him, ‘She will make a very good wife, work hard for you, give you many sons,’ And it was true. He never had to complain about her, not once, from the day they married and moved into their new home, with his future in the same suitcase. Her face was the same now as it was then, neither soft nor hard, never showing what she felt or needed. He didn’t know what she needed. And he never asked. ‘Iv’s a good suitcase. It’s lasted a long time,’ he said. “Yes, I suppose. But it’s still small.” She got up from the bed and shook the pillows. They needed washing, she thought. Yes, wash it away, the dust and dirt of yesterday. Their past married life together. In the future nothing would ever be the same again. ‘It’s enough,’ he said. ‘I don’t have so many things to put in it.’ He put the suitcase on the floor, ready to go. She looked at him, still smelling his cologne. Maybe it“ples ay ,‘mouyj 3,uop | “rauo0s sdeyzod ‘sap, -asvoains sry dn poypid op] “ssnoy ayp Ur lomoy M@U v afl] 9q P[NOM auO BuNoK a4yp ang “Oyo ay uvyp 1e8u0Ns auo ‘soa Suppoa-prey oma aaey P[nom oy MON “IYBNoy ay KpUTEF ay2 02 dy Ppe Or Pood aq plnom a] "s9Xo 494 paraquioures ay 3ng sup sem ‘Payse Jonau 94 puy “papoou aqs yoqar mowy 1.upIp ay papaau 40 143] 248 14m pamogs saaau 920] 4941 6z snyPD PHO 241 Punosy tos] Soq40KS ‘uvap] aq9 MiO;s] SOLED §20 Gres from the Heart: Stories from Around the World ‘Tl take care of the shop,’ she said. ‘When you come back... with her. . . ’Il have some jobs for her to do,” She sat on the bed again, suddenly feeling tired and old. He didn’t understand. No one understood. She couldn't ask him not to go. People would say that she was wrong even to ask him. “OF course,’ he said. He was pleased that she thought of business. Business was important. He had many mouths to feed, He opened the door and turned to her, “Today is a great day for our family. Not everyone is rich enough to have two wives. And there will be more sons to continue the family name.’ He smiled at her, “Yes. Not everyone . . . Husband?" She looked up at him, waiting, hoping. ‘Thave to’ go now. I'm late.” He did not want her to say anything, He never asked questions about her feelings because he was afraid of the answers. It was easier to pretend that she was happy all the time. ‘Your suitcase. It’s old. You need a new one,’ Thankfully, he turned away. No questions asked, no answers needed. Perhaps I will get a new one after all,’ he said. He left the room and the door closed quietly behind him. a 31 Mimble Fingers ANURADHA MURALIDHARAN # A story from India, retold by Jennifer Bassett Life is never easy for the poor. They have to work long hours just to get a roof over their heads and one meal a day. If their children are lucky, they go to school. If they are not lucky, they have to work. Krishna, who tells this story, is not lucky. He has to work in a factory making beedies, a kind of Indian cigarette. He is a good worker, because his young fingers are small and quick and nimble cannot read or write, but I can count, but only up to 1500 because that is the number of beedies that I need to make in a day. My life is easy to explain. If I wake up early, I can play for about one hour, or until the sun begins to light up the eastern sky. For that one hour Lam free —as free as the birds which sit on the tree outside my home. ‘My home is a hut with a roof of dried leaves. It is very small, but the three of us can just sleep in it. 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[ can feel warm tears dropping onto my finger: Here Tam, happy that I have Weaver-Maama’s fingers, and Amma is crying. She looks at the black marks on my hands and the cuts on my finger ends ~ she kisses my hands, and holds me and Thangachi close to her ‘Amma,’ I ask again, ‘why can I not work with Weaver: Maama?” Thangachi is pushing her finger into my back. Her cyes are telling me to stop my questions, but I want to Know. If I can make 1500 beedies in a day, surely I can help Weaver-Maama weave his beautiful cloth? & Amma never answered my question that day, but I just went on asking. I asked the same question every night until the next full moon. ‘That night Thangachi was already asleep. Amma and | were sitting outside watching fireflies dancing in the moonlight. Amma held me close to her and said: ‘Krishna, you have to work all your life with Saami, the bonded labour man. You have to do this to pay back your srandfather’s debt. 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Is business now, Granny called out so everyone could hear. The Festive Season in a Part of Africa 39 “We must talk about money. Is business now,’ she called ‘out so everyone could hear. “Well,” I said, ‘you nearly had a dead cow and a dead calf, but I came and got the calf out, and so now they are both alive, not so?” She agreed, and fifty other people agreed too. ‘And I drove all the way from Ondini in my pick-up which is a thirsty car ~as thirsty as an old man drinking beer on a Sunday, Smiles and laughter. ‘And if you take good care of this calf and he grows into a strong young bull, when he is a year old, at the market in Ondini, they will pay you 1,500 rands for him, Not so? “Yes.’ The old men in the crowd nodded their heads. ‘And the cow . . . she is old and tired, and the flies are very bad this summer. 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Then choose the best linking words to join the parts together. st parts of the sentence: L The African girl in the photograph is starving, . 2 Mrs Phipps is knitting a scarf for Leonard, 3A woman and her husband cannot have children, . . 4 Sonny was a drunkard living on the streets, . 5 Do 6 Aman packs his suitcase to go to his wedding .. . and Acayo are soldiers with guns, 7 Krishna works in Saami’s factory making beedies 8 Granny in South Africa sends for the vet Second parts of the sentence: 9 because | so they buy a baby in another country . 10 while after his first wife watches him unhappily LL so/ because she is afraid her cow will die, ... 12 but / so the girl in the bookstore in the USA admires her cheek bones .. 13, who / what are fighting in a terrible war, 14 and / after he asks his mother every night for a month 15 which / who has been her husband for fifty-three years, .. 16 but / because Nan gave him some fruit... scones: After Reading, Al “Third parts of the sentence: 17 because | but they are only children, twelve years old. 18 and | after does not think about dying from hunger. 19 why / because he cannot work with his uncle, Weaver- Maama. 20 but ! because he spoke nicely to her and called her Ma’am. 21 but | so now he does not remember her name, 22 because / but the calf is born alive and all is well. 23 so/ and tries to find the words to stop him going, 24 who /and take the baby back to their home as their son. 2 How did you feel about the people in these stories? 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She was educated England, and the United States, and worked for many ified accountant. She lives in Mississippi, USA, with her husband and daughter, and teaches at a university. Her short stories have won several awards, and she has written plays for the radio and the theatre. Her first novel, Everything Good Will Come, was published in 2005, and in 2006 it won the first Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa ADRIENNE M FRATER Adrienne Frater lives and writes in Nelson, New Zealand, She was a teacher for many years, but is now a full-time writer, writing stories for both adults and children. She loves to travel, and writes where — on boats or in a motothome. The idea for her story Leonard came to her like this. Her friend’s son made a beautiful wooden box for his mother, out of old wood, but the wood was id had holes in it, It was a present full of holes, but made great love, like the scarf in the story AURI KUBUITSILE Lauri Kubuitsile was born in the USA. and came to Botswana in 1989 as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer. After some years as science teacher in schools in Mahalapye, she became a writer and hor. Her short stories have appeared in magazines around the ind have won several prizes. She also writes for newspapers, About the Authors SA and her first book, The Fatal Payout, was published in 2005, She is married, and lives in Botswana with her husband and two teenaged children. ERICA N ROBINSON Erica Robinson-Sturridge was born in the town of Mandeville in Jamaica, where she spent her early years. As a child, she loved reading and writing, and playing on the beach, and she continued to read literature while she was studying at university for her degrees in biology and nutrition. She still works as a scientist, but hopes one day to be a full-time writer. She lives with her husband in her hometown in Jamaica. JACKEE BUDESTA BATANDA Jacke Budesta Batanda was born in Uganda, and lives in Kampala. She read a lot as a child, and at the age of fourteen decided to be a writer because she wanted ‘to create stories that captivate and enchant readers around the world”. Many of het short stories have ‘won prizes, and she has published a children’s book, The Blue Marble. She has also written a collection of short stories, Everyday People, and is currently at work on a novel. JANET TAY HUI CHING Janet Tay Hui Ching (1976-) was born in Malaysia, and was educated in Sarawak and at university in England. She worked as an advocate and solicitor for five years in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, before leaving the legal profession to become an editor at a local publishing house. 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I shall take some of the gold with me — if I escape, perhaps it will be helpful later. Dracula 5S STAGE 3 * L000 HEADWORDS ious sed to ~ past perfect ect statements «+ should, may ~ present perfect cont ~ causative ~ relative clauses —i OF course, it was most important that no one should see Colin, Mary, or Dickon entering the secret garden, So Colin Bave orders to the gardeners that they must all keep away from that part of the garden in future. The Secret Garden STAGE 4 * 1400 HEADWoRDS past perfect ci inaous ~ passive (simple forms) ~ ‘vould conditional clauses ~ indirect questions ~ relatives with swherelwhen ~ gerunds after prepositions/phrases Twas glad. Now Hyde could not show his face to the world again. If he did, every honest man in London would be proud to report him to the police. 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