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AN EVACUEE’S BALANCE SHEET. JEAN, 12, TOLD THE DAILY MIRROR WHAT SHE MISSED AND GAINED AS AN EVACUEE, Novembe

I MISS: Being with my Mummy and Daddy every day. Playing with Bessie, Eileen and Maud on Clapham Common. We had such fun sailing boats on the pond there.

My own little room and bed and the dolls I used to talk to. It was great fun being a mummy to them. I had six and Kathleen was my favourite, so Mummy let me take her away with me.

Rover, my dog, who used to see me to bed and lie by my bed until I went to sleep. He was run over by a lorry a week after I left.

The nice policeman with a moustache who used to see me across the road.

I GAINED: Mary and Joan, whose father keeps this farm. They have a pony, which I ride sometimes. At fifirst I was very frightened, but now I can gallop. Mummy and Daddy saw me gallop last Sunday.

A nice room with lots of books about adventure. I read them to Kathleen, and I pretend that she likes it down here as much as me. Old Joe, who works on the farm and gives me rides on the milk cart. But the thing I like most is going to High School. I might never have done it if it hadn’t been for the war.”

WAR GAMES

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