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Barbara Petrie 5 There’d been a circus in town recently, though there were no big cats, only an elephant that had picked up Diamond Connetti around his middle and tossed the old man high into the air. Diamond had broken his shoulder in the fall and was lucky not to have been killed. That would teach him, people said, not to tickle the backside of an elephant with a straw. The clawing sound on the verandah continued. I’ll have to wake Dad, Clover thought. But it would be too dangerous to turn on the light—the thing out there might jump at the sound of the switch and come crashing through the wall. Creeping through the dark she found her parents’ bed. She tapped her sleeping father’s arm. ‘Dad, there’s something on the verandah—it’s scratching the floor,’ she said in a whisper, not wishing to disturb her mother. ‘I think it’s a lion—or it could be the werewolf.’ Her father woke, propped himself up on his elbow. ‘Oh I don’t think so Clover, but I’ll go and have a look,’ Tim said. Clover followed her father into the hall and peered from behind as he drew the curtain of the glass-panelled door aside. What she glimpsed was a pale sand-coloured paw. Oh it looked like the paw of a lion. She turned her head quickly—she dare not look any more. ‘That’s a German shepherd. Beggared if I know who owns a German shepherd in these parts,’ said Tim in an even voice. He clapped his hands loudly and growled at the animal to be off. Clover sighed with relief as her father led her back to bed. Φ ‘The Randal family is arriving Saturday afternoon,’ said Maeve Fairnie to her daughter. ‘Perhaps you could make a sign—‘Welcome to Loam’— and put it on their gate.’ So the Poms are arriving at last, thought Clover. She knew they were already in New Zealand, staying in Christchurch with a Mr Peterson who’d picked them up from Lyttelton. ‘I don’t know them, they’re Pommies,’ Clover said, pouting out the ‘Pommies’; she knew the slang word for English people was offensive. The dictionary said the word might have come about by putting immigrant

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