Young Storykeeper Volume III

170 | STORYKEEPERS VOLUME III AGE TEN | 171
THE MYSTERIOUS LETTER
18th May 1940
Dear Diary,
When I got off the train I felt very woozy and I had no clue where to go.
Sorry, I forgot. First I will tell you a bit about myself. My name is
Lillian Parker and I am an evacuee.
When the war started, my mother thought that we would be okay.
But when our house was bombed, she knew that I had to be sent away.
Now, I am off my train and the lady who came with us on the train is
leading us to a big hall. We have been brought to a place called Plymouth
and apparently I am going to stay in a lighthouse!
I don’t know who will be looking after me though.
When we got to the hall, I saw loads of people looking at our
nametags. The lady was calling out adults to take a child.
The adult taking me was called George Robinson. He looked very
mischievous to me, but I followed him. He did not say a word to me when
we were walking to the lighthouse. But when we got to the black and
white mysterious-looking lighthouse - just like George - he said that my
bedroom was on the second floor.
He also told me never to go up to the top floor. I was puzzled, so I
just went to my room and I’m about to go to sleep.
Night, diary.
20th May 1940
Dear Diary,
I have been here two days now and George never comes down from the
top floor of the lighthouse.
He went to go to the shop today, so I thought I might do some
exploring on the top floor.
As soon as I heard the door shut, I raced upstairs into the upper
room and saw a letter on the table.
This is what it said:
Dear George,
Since we are cousins, I was wondering if you could do me a little favour.
You must hurry because then we will win this war!
I would like you to assassinate Winston Churchill.
In this package I have sent a gun. You will need to buy gunpowder for it.
Yours truly,
Adolf Hitler
My mouth went dry. I couldn’t believe that I was living with Hitler’s cousin!
Straight away, I ran down to the nearest police station and showed them
the letter.
They went to the shop and arrested George just as he was about to
buy some gunpowder for his gun.
Wow, I thought, being an evacuee is very exciting.
21st May 1940
Dear Diary,
I was really excited this morning because I was told that my mother would
be coming and we would own the lighthouse.
As soon as she arrived, I told her all about what happened, and she
told me that she was very proud.
Now, diary, we go and have picnics on the beach every day and we
are very, very happy!
Bye for now!
THE LIGHTHOUSE
We thought we would never go,
But one day we got to know,
That we where going to go to
Stroove lighthouse.
It was a long car drive,
But it was worth it in the end,
Stroove lighthouse.
We stayed there for a week,
It was so fun we all screamed Eeek,
Stroove lighthouse.
Everything there is beautiful,
I was so happy that we went,
Going on the ferry,
We saw the jiggly jellyfish,
There where so many of them.
When our week was over,
I was very sad to leave,
In the car we said
Goodbye Stroove Lighthouse.
Leyla Talayhan
Co Wicklow
Ruth Graham
Co Dublin