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chapter three
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as soon as the bell for morning break
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went that wednesday
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gabby and me ran out into the playground
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to read the special letter that mrs
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peters had given me to take home to my
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mum
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it said
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dear mrs butters
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as part of a new and exciting innovative
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to increase your child's awareness of
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the natural world
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our class has welcomed two hamsters into
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its fold
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pickle and pops are firm favorites with
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the children but we'll be looking for
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her home
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outside of school for the duration of
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the easter holidays
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can you help
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would you and your child be willing and
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able to look after two lovable hamsters
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returning them safely to the school
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after the holiday
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if so please tick each of the boxes
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below accordingly
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sign and return to the school office
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yes my child and i would be delighted to
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look after pickle and pops
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my child and i have no known allergy to
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hamsters
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my child and i have no known allergy to
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hamster food or sawdust
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my child and i have no known allergy to
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fruits or vegetables
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i
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slash we
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accept full responsibility for any
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discomfort that may occur as a direct or
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indirect result of lifting a hamster
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cage
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i slash we
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accept full responsibility for any
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disorientation
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dizziness and slash or
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any other side effects that may be
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caused by the repetitive spinning of a
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hamster's wheel
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signature of parent
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and undertake to pay for any veterinary
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attention that may be needed over the
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sit over the said period of hamster care
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it took me and gabby nearly the whole of
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morning break to read the letter
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we understood the
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dear mrs butter's bit
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but got really confused by all the rest
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what if your mum gets confused too
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askgabby
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what if she gets so confused by the
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letter she won't sign the form
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i'm going to put tix in all the boxes
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and sign it for her i said
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getting my pencil case out of my school
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bag
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the trouble with filling in a form for
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your mum is you have to make it look
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like your mum has done all the filling
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in
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mum
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trouble is i did it in purple felt tip
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when i showed my filled in forms to
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gabby
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she said that parents don't usually
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write in purple felt tip
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plus they usually do joined up writing
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plus i had signed mum
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instead of tiffany butters
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which meant there was no way mrs peters
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would believe my mum had failed in the
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form
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which meant there was no way mrs peters
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would believe
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my mum had said yes
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which meant there was no way i could
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give the form back to mrs peters
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which meant i had to screw it up
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into a ball and throw it in the rubbish
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bin which meant
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i didn't even have
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a special letter to take home anymore
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the trouble with not having a special
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letter to take home anymore is
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i had to persuade mrs peters to give me
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another one
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say a dog ate it said gabby
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there aren't any dogs in the playground
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i said
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say jack beach whistle ate it
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said gabby
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it's okay
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i said
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i know exactly what i'm going to tell
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her
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the trouble with telling mrs peters that
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the wind had blown the letter out of my
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hand during morning break
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and her bird had swooped down and
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carried it off and it speak is
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i'm not sure she believed me at first
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i never knew we had pelicans in the area
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daisy
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she said
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oh perhaps it was a toucan
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i'm not sure i said
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but its beak was massive
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in fact
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i was lucky
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it didn't fly off in my school bag as
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well luckily
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mrs peters totally believed me
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and gave me another letter to take home
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only this time i didn't fill it in
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this time i decided to cross my fingers
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instead
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chapter
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four when i ran out of out after school
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to meet my mum
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i was so excited i could have burst
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thank goodness i'd been to the loo
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because
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guess what
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my mum said yes
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as long as it would be me
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looking after the hamsters over the
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holidays and not her
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which was a bit of a weird thing to say
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if you ask me
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gabby was really excited for me too
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especially when my mum said i could keep
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pickle and pops in my bedroom
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mom even said
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i could put that cage right beside my
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bed
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i couldn't believe it
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it was going to be the best easter
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holiday
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ever
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i didn't care whose turn it was to feed
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pickle and pops for the rest of the week
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now
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or even who got to clean them out
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because i knew that as soon as we broke
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up from school on friday
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i was going to have pickle and pups
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all to myself for a whole two weeks
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and their cage and their wheel
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and their food and their drinks bottle
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and their sawdust and everything
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i would be able to feed them every day
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and even clean them out every day if i
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wanted to
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how brilliant is that
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all i had to do now was wait to take
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them home
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and wait
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and wait
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and wait
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and wait
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the trouble with being told on a
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wednesday that you are going to be
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hamster guardian of the easter holiday
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is
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once wednesday's over
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you still have to wait for thursday to
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be over
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before you even get to friday
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plus
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even when you get to friday
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you have to do
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another whole day of lessons before you
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break up for the easter holidays at the
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end of the afternoon
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it was so
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frustrating
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my mum told me that i should stop
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wishing my life away
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but i was but i wasn't wishing my life
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away at all
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i was just wishing my life had real life
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actual hamsters in it
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living with me at home
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why did i have to go to boring school
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first
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why couldn't i be hamster guardian of
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the easter holiday straight away
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i don't know how many rubber bands jack
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beach whistle pinged at me over the last
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two days of school
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but he was definitely
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definitely
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jealous
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in the playground on thursday
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jack told me and gabby that about 500
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years ago
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a really bad disease
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called the great plague of london had
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been caused by hamsters
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and that i would probably catch it too
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now
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luckily
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barry marley was listening
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so when jack had gone he told us it
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wasn't caused by hamsters at all
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it was caused by rats which don't even
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look anything like hamsters
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because they have much longer tails
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when i asked my mum
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she said the great pig of london
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wasn't even caused by wraps
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it was caused by fleas that lived on
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laks on rats
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which was even better news
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because fleas don't look anything like
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hamsters either
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and even if they did
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pickle and pops didn't have any fleas
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because if they did
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i would have noticed them when i was
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being hamster monitor
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so there was no way i was going to catch
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the great plague of london
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or even the little plague of london
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and even if i did
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the first thing i would do when i got
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back to school
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is breathe it all over jack beach
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whistle
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that would stop him and his rubber bands
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when the bell
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finally went at the end of school on
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friday
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it felt like i'd been waiting about 20
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weeks
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and even then i had to wait for my mum
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to turn up
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and wait and wait and waits
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because when she did turn up and saw me
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and gabby by the hamsters
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she had to go all the way home again
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because she had forgotten to bring the
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car with her
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it was so
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embarrassing
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when my mum finally turned up and mrs
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peters finally gave me pickle and pop's
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cage to hold
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i was so excited i nearly burst
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mom took the hamster food and gabby
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carried the sawdust
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we had absolutely
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everything we needed for the perfect
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holiday
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happy easter
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said mrs peters as we left the
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classroom you too
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said my mum
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see you in two weeks
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i'd never carried a hamster cage out of
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a classroom before
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it was so
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brilliant when we got to the car
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mum made me give her the cage
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to hold while gabby and i got in and did
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up our seat belts
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but as soon as my seat belt was clicked
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i made mum give me the cage back
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straight away
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they've woken up
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said gabby
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poking her finger through the bars
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gabby was right
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pickle and pops definitely looked more
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jumpity than before
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i think they're excited about coming
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to live with me i said
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i'd be excited about coming to live with
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you
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said as we pulled up outside her house
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especially for two weeks
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i know i grinned
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if next
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friday is called
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good friday
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then this friday should be called best
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friday
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best ever friday
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gabby waved
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see you tomorrow
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when we arrived at my house i couldn't
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get my seat belt off quick enough
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as soon as i got pickle and pops through
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the front door
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i carried them straight up to my bedroom
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mum helped me helped with the sawdust
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and food
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but i was totally in charge of their
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cage
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i wonder if they eat easter eggs
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i said as i settled them down on the
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table next to my bed
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no they do not eat easter eggs
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growled my mum
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chocolate was not designed
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for hamsters
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daisy
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in fact
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it is one of the worst things you can
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ever feed an animal
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i said
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no
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i i was only wondering i said
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i wasn't going to actually give them any
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i'm pleased to hear it
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mom frowned
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i wonder if they're hungry though i said
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lying down on my bed
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and watching them from my pillow
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they have plenty of food to eat if they
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are
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said mom
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i wonder if they are thirsty i said
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they know where their water bottle is if
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they are
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said mum
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i wonder if they fancy some fruit
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i said
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there is fruit in the fruit bowl if they
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do
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said mum
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i wonder if their whiskers need brushing
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i said
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you can keep your hands off my hairbrush
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if they do
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said mum
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i wonder if their wheel needs oiling
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i said
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you can stay out of your shed if it does
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said mum
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i wonder if their toenails need clipping
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i said
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not even with the red scissors
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mom frowned
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i wonder if they want me to read them a
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story i said
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i wonder if this is going to be the
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longest two weeks of my life
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sign my mum
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oh goodness
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oh good there's someone at the door
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