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something this small have cost forty

pounds? As I pulled the paper away the

shape was looking suspiciously familiar.

“It’s... it’s... an empty jam jar!” I said.

Clara had started laughing before I even

finished the sentence.

“It’s for keeping things in,” she said. “You

know, worms, slugs, bugs or whatever else

little brothers like collecting!”

Jake’s mouth had dropped open.

“But what about the...?” he began. I

kicked his leg under the table. The jar still

had the sticky white label on the side with

the scrawled writing:

For Harry ’s birthday!

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