George the Greytown Wizard

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Every Sunday the preachers blamed the people for the grey state of the town.“You must have sinned”, they preached over and over again. “If you donʼtrepent and mend your evil, wicked ways, the town will stay in shades of grey”.In truth it was the fault of the people that their town was grey. But they werenot prepared to consider this possibility and nobody around town was braveenough to voice the possibility.The preachers were not sure if God was even listening, as the town remainedgrey. But everybody hoped that God would do something about it, in His owngood time, of course.the councilWhen God did not bring the colour back to Wannabe, many peoplegave up going to church. The preachers had to sell their horse-drawn carriagesand rode around on donkeys instead.In desperation the people turned to the Wannabe Council. The peoplereminded the Mayor and councillors that it was their duty to cure the town ofthe grey disease.“Spend some money,” they begged the Mayor. “Set up a research institute tofind out what has caused the greyness and consult with the community, whichis why we elected you in the first place.”“We canʼt help you,” the Mayor cried. “Nobody knows what has caused thisdisaster. Weʼve already consulted the countryʼs leading experts and eventhey say that nothing can be done. They advised us to stop wasting moneyand time trying to find a cure. I guess we will all have to get used to beinggrey. You should all be grateful that itʼs a nice shade of grey and not a nastyshade of lime green.”Many people left the grey town any way they could. They were pleased whentheir colour returned once they were out of town. Some of them were sodesperate they walked out with their belongings on their backs. Soon the onlypeople who remained were those families too poor to pack up and leave, thosewho loved the town, because it had been their home for many generations,and those few individuals who were colour blind.27
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Page 5 and 6: CONTENTSsection one — the teasing
Page 7 and 8: the teasingGeorge was a wizard with
Page 9 and 10: about is making money. None of you
Page 11 and 12: The fog drifted over the owls keepi
Page 13 and 14: The Town Clerk and his wife hurried
Page 15 and 16: times of unusual weather reversals,
Page 17 and 18: the grey world through their lace c
Page 19 and 20: down and other simple spells like t
Page 21 and 22: Still George persisted. The flame o
Page 23 and 24: all, a rather big, heavy boy. He ne
Page 25: the churchA couple of months had pa
Page 29 and 30: Travellers took the long way around
Page 31 and 32: Her father said sadly, “I really
Page 33 and 34: into the next week. Then the school
Page 35 and 36: One day Rhiannon had a good look at
Page 37 and 38: flashes of colourGeorge had noticed
Page 39 and 40: Next he put all his notes up on the
Page 41 and 42: Her father replied in a soothing to
Page 43 and 44: wizard. George thought to himself,
Page 45 and 46: He rubbed the ointment and nothing
Page 47 and 48: possible. You and your town would h
Page 49 and 50: Mayor would call on him to put it r
Page 51 and 52: CAROLINE AMBRUSI was born in 1938 i

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