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The Seer's Wolf6 and pomegranate, together—pomegranate because of the red cheeks of immigrants. Well she’d find out soon enough if the Randals’ cheeks were red! Oh Pommies was a funny word all right, and she couldn’t get it out of her head. She remembered the neighbours Wiry Wakeling and Maun Mustchin outside the local store complaining about the Pommies—and the Dutch, too. What they’d said was, the Poms and the Dutch were taking the jobs off the local people and in no time were buying up land and building houses. It’s unfair, Wiry had said, sounding very annoyed. But anyway she wasn’t going to anyone’s house with a ‘Welcome to Loam’ poster. It would be too embarrassing. Clover replied to her mother’s suggestion by making a noise of disagreement. ‘You’ll get into trouble one of these days, talking like that —just call them English—you’re too forward,’ said Maeve. Forward. Mum had the habit of saying she was forward, thought Clover. Right now she just felt the strangeness of the situation and didn’t want anything to do with welcoming newcomers. ‘I could make a batch of scones—they’ll be hungry after the trip,’her mother persisted. But no, thought Clover, to present those foreigners face to face with a basket of hot buttered scones would be even worse. She declined to answer. ‘Well, I can see I’ll have to go over myself,’ said Maeve with a tired voice. Clover slipped out of the house, away from the clutch of her mother’s ideas. But she was curious and hatched her own. On Saturday after lunch, she’d go to the loft. There was a small hole—a knot in the wood—she’d discovered in the far wall that overlooked the sod-brick house where the Randal family were to live. She’d watch out for their arrival. Saturday came. When the lunch dishes had been washed and dried and put away, Clover climbed the wooden ladder from the stable. Through an unlatched door on the outer face of the loft, a set of gallows hung. It was used for hanging slaughtered sheep. You never even thought of opening the door to the gallows—there was nothing to step onto but thin air. And inside the loft not far from the manhole, a chute made of sacking fell away into the chaff box down in the stable and you had to be careful not to stumble into it.

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