DEAD MAN TALKING: Adventures in the afterlife

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The very next day I’m up on the cart with dad. I take the reins while he hollers and blows his bugle as we work the streets together. I quickly realise that times are hard, the war has just started and rationing has come in. Luckily for us we can get good money for the scrap we collect for the war effort and folks come out and give us all sorts’ old metal objects, which we sell on at a good profit. On one occasion early in the war, when clothes were on ration, this little girl brings us a load of dresses saying, “My mam is fed up with wearing these old rags.” I throw them on the back of the cart, give her two chicks for her trouble and she is as pleased as punch.
An hour or so had passes bye and the cart is filling up nicely when I see the same young girl running up behind us. She’s some distance from her house and in floods of tears yelling, “Stop please stop!” I holler “whoa” at “Sam” the horse and the old fellah comes to a gentle standstill. The infant eventually catches up with us and stands there beside the cart puffing and panting whilst clinging on to the box of chicks for dear life. She gazes up at us both through her sad blue eyes and dad looks her up and down and then at the box and says, “What’s up little ‘un?”
She takes a deep breath, wipes her nose with the back of her hand and then in a broad Black Country accent recounts her tale, “My mam really did tell me that she was fed up with wearing old rags and that’s why I gave them to you because you are the rag and bone man.” Without pausing for breath she went on, “When my mam got home and went up to her room to get changed she opened her wardrobe and saw that it was nearly empty. She thought we had been robbed and was going mad so I told her what I had done with them and she said that I had better go and get them back quickly or I would be in real trouble!”

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DEAD MAN TALKING: Adventures in the afterlife

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