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Harold's Headboard Mice.
In the spring of 1943, in the time of the second world war, when everyone wanted cheerful news
instead of the bad, there, in a small Welsh village, in a cosy cottage among many others, lived an
old man called Harold.
He was a cheerful man who always wore a flat cap, glasses, had thick grey hair and always, no
matter what, had a friendly smile for everyone. Everyone who knew him loved him very much,
Harold may have seemed happy to everyone but inside his home he had no one and was rather
lonely, he had never been lucky enough to have a wife but was very much in love with Miss Susie
Stevens from down the road who had also never had a husband, she was also secretly in love with
Harold. They had felt that way since primary school but because of their terrible shyness they never
had the courage to be honest and tell each other.
Harold thought he lived alone but he had four very small and very secretive admirers, they lived in
the hollow base of Harold's bed, and got in and out through a small hole behind the headboard,
they where mice.
