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The Macdonald‟s lived next door. They had five children. Looking
through a gap in the fence the little girl saw them playing „tag‟ in the
evening.The father with the baby, Mao, on his shoulders, two little girls
hanging on to his coat pockets ran round and round the flower-beds,
shaking with laughter. Once she saw the boys turn the hose on him—
and he tried to catch them laughing all the time.

Here the writer tells us about Kezia’s neighbours. Her neighbours were a
family named Macdonald’s. In all, the Macdonald’s had five children.
And Kezia would peep at them through a hole in the fence. She would
see that the family had a lot of fun. They played a game called tag. (Tag
is a children’s game of catching one another like we play catch- catch.)
So, all the children along with their father would have a lot of fun. Mr.
Macdonald would make his little baby Mao sit on his shoulders. And the
two little daughters that he had they would hang on to his coat pockets.
So, all the children were so much attached to their father. They loved
him so much that they would stick to him. And then they would run
around the garden, around the flower beds and they would laugh and
laugh and laugh. Kezia also wanted to have such fun with her father and
she missed it. One day she saw that the little sons of Mrs. Macdonald
opened the hose on him. They opened the water pipe and tried to make
him wet. But Mr. Macdonald was not angry with them. He tried to catch
them, and he was laughing. This was very strange for Kezia because
her father was just the opposite of Mr. Macdonald.

Then it was she decided there were different sorts of fathers.

When Kezia saw Mr. Macdonald, she realized that he was quite opposite

to her father. She felt that God had made various kinds of fathers.

Suddenly, one day, Mother became ill, and she and Grandmother went
to hospital.

One day, Kezia’s mother fell ill so she was taken to the hospital and the
Grandmother also went along with her.
The little girl was left alone in the house with Alice, the cook. That was
all right in the daytime but while Alice was putting her to bed she grew
suddenly afraid.

Now Kezia was all alone at home with the cook. The name of the cook
is Alice. Now Kezia was fine during the day but at night when the cook
put Kezia to bed all alone Kezia started feeling scared.

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