The Ghost of Grania O'Malley

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Michael Morpurgo. The Ghost of Grania O'Malley

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JESSIE WAS ALWAYS FINDING BONES IN THE great bog-oak field where they dug the peat for the winter fires. It was here too that her father found most of the wood he needed for his wood sculptures, his ‘creatures’ as she called them. She was forever going off there alone, mooching around, bottom in the air looking for her bones. She had a whole collection of them, but she never tired of looking for more. Mostly they were just sheep bones – skulls, jawbones, legbones, vertebrae. She had shrews’ skulls too, birds’ skulls, all sorts of skulls. But there was one skull she found that was unlike any other, because it was a human skull. She was quite sure of it.

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‘All summer!’ Jessie protested. ‘Why does he have to come all summer?’

‘Because he’s a relation, your Uncle Sean’s son, your cousin.’

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