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Chapter Four

An elephant in the garden

Poppy had never got showered and

dressed faster in all her life. She texted the

rest of the Gang.

‘cm qwk. Dads borrowed an elephant.’

I don’t know about you, but if I got a text

saying come quick, someone borrowed an

elephant then I’d get round there pretty fast.

You wouldn’t? Well, fair enough. I guess it

could have been a joke. Except, of course,

it wasn’t.

For a few moments Mr Brown hoped it

might be a sort of hallucination, due to not

having had any sleep for so long. And Mrs

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