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When she got home from school her mother was out at work like she always was and Grandad was still out in his garden. She sat on the bed in Grandad’s room and told Slinky all about Simon McTavish and the horrible things he’d said that day. ‘And anyway, we’re not poor,’ she went on. ‘And I have got a dad. He just doesn’t live here any more, that’s all.’

Slinky flicked out his tongue, which was his way of asking for his tea. He always had a

mouse for his tea, a dead

one, of course.