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Nothing, he replied, turning away fro for her to go away

Why don't you just collect cigarette cards like normal boys do? she said

Why don't you mind your own business? he said

It is my business, I'm older than you and I' up a dented water flask fro it quickly out of his reach Where did you get this fro from its neck by a piece of white thread Have you been on the boain?

David stood up, reaching for it

Give us it back, he said Colin's brother found it, he gave it to me

Don't believe you, Susan said You'll be in trouble if they find out

Give us it back, David said again, ju back, turning towards the door

Maybe I'll keep it, she said, s

It's not yours, David said, his voice rising indignantly

It's not yours either, she snapped back You don't even knohose it is, it could be anyone's

Finders keepers, said David, and Susan stepped out on to the landing, sain

Well, I've just found this so I'rabbed at it, Susan shrieked, and their mother yelled up at the She pulled a face and gave hiood measure that he was a smelly stinker

If she'd asked, if she'd sat down and said that she really honestly wanted to know, he would have told her that he collected these things because he was fascinated by them, because he couldn't take his eyes off the a real museum all to himself

But she didn't ask, and he rarely talked about it to anyone He found it hard to explain, when anyone did ask, why he likedbuses tosite which would one day beco I just like looking at all the things, he would say, and i out about the that the person asking wouldn't understand