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Titty Anne and the Very, Very Hairy Man

Margo Lanagan

Summer 2012

‘It is time I did my baking,’ said Mother to the children. ‘Go to the mill and fetch me some flour, and to John Hives for honey.’

Titty went with Blaze and Bertha to Hives, because bees were always more interesting than millstones. But Bertha hurried them so in the honey-getting that they did not see more than the usual bees in weeds and hedgerows on the way.

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