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Robert Leeson. The Third-Class Genie
The Third-Class Genie
Contents
Chapter One DISASTERS TWO, TRIUMPHS NIL
Chapter Two “ELEPHANT’S NEST UP A RHUBARB TREE”
Chapter Three ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY?
Chapter Four KEEPER OF THE KAN
Chapter Five BOWDEN THE BEAST
Chapter Six DO-IT-YOURSELF, BAGHDAD STYLE
Chapter Seven HIGH NOON AT BUGLETOWN COMPREHENSIVE
Chapter Eight MAKE WITH THE SHEKELS
Chapter Nine ABU IN HIGH SPIRITS
Chapter Ten FLASH BOWDEN – NIGHT RIDER
Chapter Eleven ABU PUTS IN AN APPEARANCE
Chapter Twelve “POOR LITTLE GINGER”
Chapter Thirteen WE’RE BEING FOLLOWED
Chapter Fourteen THE SIEGE OF THE CRANE HOUSE
Chapter Fifteen DAD MAKES A SPEECH
Chapter Sixteen ABU PUTS IN A DISAPPEARANCE
Chapter Seventeen MA’ASALAAMA!
Postscript
About the Author. THE THIRD-CLASS GENIE
Also by the Author
Copyright
About the Publisher
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Collins Modern Classics
Robert Leeson
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Alec stood up and looked at the object in his hand. It was a can after all, a beer can with a new label. He started to throw it away, then stopped. There was something strange about the can. It was sealed, but it felt light, as though it were empty. How could a can be sealed and yet empty? It was like one of the locked room mysteries.
The road was empty now, except for Alec. He stuffed the intriguing can into his jacket pocket and brushed most of the brick dust off his trousers. Then he picked up his bag and moved slowly, stealthily down the pavement to the bottom of Boner’s. Here the railway arch spanning the street towered high above him. Like most of the other arches it was boarded up with thick, blackened planking and nailed to the planks was an old notice which read: BUGLETOWN ORDNANCE – KEEP OUT. Alec began to count the planks until he reached the fourteenth from the right. A few seconds later Boner’s Street was empty again. Alec worked this disappearing trick every afternoon on his way home from school. It was simple, if you knew how. The fourteenth plank was loose enough for him to push it back about nine inches and wriggle through to the other side. There are some advantages in being skinny.
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