Chapter 13
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- She's our maid. She's very nice although Father says she's overpaid. But she was telling me about this man Pavel who chops our vegetables for us and waits on table. I think he lives on your side of the fence.
- Yes. Do you know him? he's very old and has a white jacket that he wears when he's serving dinner. You've probably seen him.
- On my side?
- Whos maria?
- No.
- But this one's name is Pavel, when i fell off my swing he cleaned out the cut so it didn't get infected and put a bandage on my leg. Anyway, the reason i wanted to tell you about him is because he is fro Poland too. Like you
- But you must
- I don't think you realise how many people live on this side of the fence
- Most of us here are from Poland
- Yes, but that's why i thought you might know him. Anyway, he was a doctor in his home town before he came here but he's not allowed to be a doctor anymore and if Father had known that he cleaned my knee when I hurt myself then there would have been mad
- Although there are some from other places too, like Czechoslovakia and-
- Do you know what you want to be when you grow up?
- A Zoo?
- I'm going to be a soldier, like Father
- I want to work in a Zoo
- I like animals
- The soldiers normally like people getting better, swallowing the last piece of bread. It usually works the other way around
- I don't mean like Lieutenant Kotler.Not one who strides around as if he owns the place and laughs with your sister and whispers with your mother. I don't think he is a good soldier at all. I mean like father. One of the good soldiers
- Of course there are
- Well, Father, for one
- There aren't good soldiers
- who?
- I wouldn't like to be a soldier
- That's why he has such an impressive uniform and why everyone calls him Commandant and does whatever he says. The Fury has big things in mind for him because he is such a good soldier
- You do not have any sisters, do you?
- Except Father
- You do not know what it is like here
- No
- There aren't any dood soldiers
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