Being Bee (2009)
“I meant to place Lulu carefully in her hands but her hands weren’t exactly where I expected, so Lulu slipped on to the floor of the cubby where she and Fifi are kept. I thought Lulu might have broken her back so I wailed quite loudly. Jazzi said she thought the noise was a fire siren and she nearly stepped on Lulu who was skittering around the cubbyhouse looking for cover. ‘It was all quite sudden,’ Jazzi told my dad with a pinched look on her face. Scrabbling around after Lulu had put a big ho...le in the knee of her shiny black tights and then she’d kind of plonked down on some straw soaked in guinea-pig pee, which hadn’t improved her temper. I picked most of the straw off the back of her skirt. ‘Oh, Bee!’ Dad said, shaking his head. ‘I do think the cage needs cleaning out,’ Jazzi said, ‘and it does seem to be a job that Beatrice would be able to do. When I was her age I was allowed to have a puppy but only as long as I could look after it all by myself. And that meant cleaning up her messes while I house-trained her.MoreLess
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