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This one's another tale from Ginger's Wood about some mice that do nice thing for an old

man.

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Harold's Headboard Mice by KL SEAL

In the spring of 1943, in the time of the Second World War, when everyone wanted cheerful

news instead of bad, they're in a small Welsh village and a cozy 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 Suzy

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

had 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 a net through a small hole

behind the headboard.

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