The Broken Roof

The Broken Roof

It was games time at school. The children were outside on the field! Anneena ran up to Mrs May. 'Come and see something, Mrs May, 'she said

Someone had broken the fence down and dumped junk on the field. Wilf was cross. 'We don't want junk on our field, ' he said. 'The field isn't a dump, 'said Mrs May. Then Mrs May saw something in the junk. 'Do you see this?' she asked the children. 'It's a mangle. It gets the water out of wet clothes. ' How does it do that?' asked Anneena

Mrs May took the mangle to the classroom. She showed the children how it worked. First she got a big sheet and made it wet. Then Nadim turned the handle and Biff helped Mrs May put the sheet through. The water ran out of the sheet and went into a bucket. 'We don't use mangles now to get clothes dry, ' said Mrs May. What do we use?

Mrs May showed the children a picture of someone washing clothes a long time ago. Mrs May asked the children if they had any old things at home. Some of the children said they had. When Biff and Chip got home from school they looked at the little house. 'The house looks very old, ' said Chip, 'and so do these little children. 'Let's take them to school. '

Kipper didn't want them to take the little house to school. What about the magic?' he asked Biff. The magic won't work if we don't take the key, ' said Biff.