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Mart was my best friend.
thought he was great,
but one day he tried to do for me.
I had a hat- a woolly one
and I loved that hat.
It was warm and tight.
My mum had knitted it
and I wore it everywhere.
One day me and Mart were out
and we were standing at a bus-stop
and suddenly
he goes and grabs my hat
and chucked it over the wall.
He thought I was going to go in there
and get it out.
He thought he'd make me do that
because he knew I liked that hat so
much
I wouldn't be able to stand being
without it.
He was right
I could hardly bear it.
I was really scared I'd never get it
back.
But I never let on.
I never showed it on my face.
I just waited.
Aren't you going to get your hat?
he says.
Your hat's gone, he says.
Your hat's over the wall.
I looked the other way.
But I could still feel on my head
how he had pulled it off.
Your hat's over the wall, he says.
I didn't say a thing.
Then the bus came round the corner
at the end of the road.
If I go home without my hat
I'm going to walk through the door
and Mum's going to say,
Where's your hat?
and if I say,
It's over the wall,
she's going to say,
What's it doing there?
and I'm going to say,
Mart chucked it over,
and she's going to say,
Why didn't you go for it?
and what am I going to say then?
What am I going to say then?
The bus was coming up.
Aren't won't be another bus for ages
Mart says
The bus was coming closer.
You've lost your hat now,
Mart says.
The bus stopped.
I got on
Mart got on
The bus moved off.
You've your hat, Mart says.
You've lost your hat; Mart says.
Two stops ahead was ours.
Are you going indoors without it?
Mart says.
I didn't say a thing.
The bus stopped.
Mart got up
and dashed dowbstairs.
He'd got off one stop early.
I got off when we got to our stop.
I went home
walked through the door
Where's your hat? Mum says
Over a wall; I said.
What's it doing there?
Mart chucked it over there, I said
But you haven't left it there, have
you? she says.
Yes I said.
Well don't you ever come asking me to
make you anything like that again.
You make me tired you do.
Later,
I was drinking some orange juice.
The front door-bell rang.
It was Mart.
He had the hat in his hand.
He handed it to me- and went.
I shut the front door-
put on the hat
and walked into the kitchen.
Mum looked up.
You don't need to wear hat indoors do
you?
she said.
I will for a bit, I said.
And I did.
By: Micheal
Rosen
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