Jamrach's Menagerie

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Carol Birch. Jamrach's Menagerie

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For Budgie

I was born twice. First in a wooden room that jutted out over the black water of the Thames, and then again eight years later in the Highway, when the tiger took me in his mouth and everything truly began.

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‘Ah, good job well done there, Dan,’ Mr Jamrach said, taking his seat behind the desk. ‘I daresay you’re home for a good while now?’

‘Never enough and always too long,’ said Dan Rymer, taking off his cap. His voice was as rough as sand.

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