My Friend Walter: Part 5

By MICHAEL MORPURGO

"It says: "To the family Throckmorton" that means you too, Jimmy." Little Jim waved his arms up and down like a tin drummer boy and then rubbed his soggy rusk in his ear. "It says: "You are invited to attend a grand reunion of our family to be held at the Tower Hotel, London, on the fourteenth of July at noon. Have your name writ upon you so we may know one another".

"Very mysterious,' said Mother. 'I wonder who sent it. Can't spell, whoever it is. Should be "written" not "writ". And it's not signed at all. Just look at the writing, Bess. Worse than yours.' And she turned the card round to show me. The handwriting was all squeezed up and tall. I could hardly read a word of it.

"'Rum business if you ask me," said Father. "Could be a hoax for all we know."

Publisher: Egmont/Mammoth
Price: $14.95
Age group: 10-plus years

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