Precious and the Mystery of the Missing Lion by Alexander McCall-Smith

Author:Alexander McCall-Smith [McCall-Smith, Alexander]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780857905802
Publisher: Birlinn
Published: 2013-08-07T23:00:00+00:00

“Teddy’s disappeared!” shouted one of the film men. “We don’t know where he is.”

Precious joined the throng of people from the camp who started looking for the missing lion. They searched under the trucks and vans; they searched in the sheds where they kept supplies; they even looked under the beds in some of the camp huts just in case he had decided to find a hiding place there. But there was no sign of him – Teddy, it seemed, had vanished into thin air.

Darkness came down like a curtain. Now it was too late to search any more, and they all had to go to bed hoping that in the morning he would come out from wherever he was hiding in time for that day’s filming.

“He’ll turn up,” said Aunty Bee. “Or at least I hope he’ll turn up.”

The next morning, when the sun rose up over the tops of the trees like a great red ball, Precious went outside to look for Teddy. She studied the ground, as her father had taught her to do, for any sign that a lion had walked that way, but there was nothing. She saw the footprints of a small family of warthogs,

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