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Rosemary Border
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G LOBAL V ILLAGE S HORT S TORIES
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1 The bag snatcher
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One Saturday afternoon in a small town, Emma Carter came out of the shoe shop with some new shoes. They were cheap shoes, but Emma was very pleased with them. She was seventy-three years old and didn’t have much money. She began to walk home. ‘A nice cup of tea,’ she thought, ‘and then I can go for a walk in my new shoes.’
It was a quiet town and there was nobody in the street. Suddenly,
Emma heard something behind her. She didn’t have time to look, because just then somebody ran up behind her, hit her on the head, and snatched her bag out of her hands. Emma fell down on her back. Then she looked up and saw a tall young man with long, dirty brown hair.
He stood and looked down at her for a second; then he ran away with
Emma’s bag under his arm.
‘Help! Help!’ Emma cried.
But nobody came, and after two or three minutes Emma slowly got up and went to the nearest house. The people there were very kind.
They gave Emma a cup of tea, and soon an ambulance came and took her to hospital.
At the hospital a doctor looked at Emma’s head and back. ‘You are going to be OK,’ he said. ‘Just take it easy for a day or two. Can your husband help you at home?’
‘My husband died eight years ago,’ said Emma. ‘There’s only me at

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home.’
‘Well,’ the doctor said, ‘we don’t want you to feel ill and fall downstairs at home. So I think you must stay in hospital for tonight, and perhaps tomorrow night, too.’
Later, a policeman came to hospital and Emma told him about the bag-snatcher. ‘Did anybody see this young man?’ he asked.
‘I don’t know,’ said Emma. ‘But