young one

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She read him out a letter from the Herr Direktor of the zoo, giving his permission, and declaring that the elephant was a young one, only four years old, recently orphaned and so needed special care and attention, that she was an unusually calm elephant, and quite safe to be left under the supervision of Mutti overnight; that he had inspected the garden himself, and there was no danger whatsoever to the public.

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‘He said he needed a bear -I caught a young one. I never knew what he meant to do!’

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I think of that optical illusion—an old lady with a crooked nose from one angle, a young one wearing a choker from another.

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The shift when you go from seeing the old lady to the young one.

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One of them, quite a young one, maybe not much older than Hannie, smiled back, and for a split second I almost relaxed.

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