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An enormous lorry was reversing in the

street outside and making that beeping

noise that lorries make when they are going

backwards.

Then there was a squeak of brakes and

some crashing and banging of lorry doors.

Then a few seconds after that there was a

ring on the doorbell.

“Wow!” she said. “I wonder what it is!”

Minutes later she was out in the hall of

the bungalow.

It looked as if Mr Brown had just got

home from his night job and Mrs Brown was

outside too talking to the lorry driver. A

second delivery person was opening up the

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