A French Bulldog gallops past a living-room coffee table, wide-eyed and grinning, a rug rucked up behind it, while its owner stands still holding a mug and smiling.

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The Last Bell

Quarter past three on the last day of term. The bell goes, the doors burst open, and two hundred children pour out at full tilt, coats flapping, shrieking, running nowhere in particular. Nobody’s chasing them. They’ve sat still and been good for six hours, and it has to come out somewhere.

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