![]() ![]() In his wallet, as far as he could remember, he had a few notes saved-a good thing since it probably wouldn't be free to go into hiding. Besides, Director Alice had repeatedly shown that she had a sixth sense (wherever he hid his vodka, she found it), and she might be nosing around in there even now, suspicious that something fishy was going on.īetter to be on his way while he could, Allan thought, as he stepped out of the flower bed on creaking knees. ![]() He was on the run from his own birthday party, another unusual thing for a 100-year-old, not least because even being 100 is pretty rare.Īllan thought about whether he should make the effort to crawl back in through the window to get his hat and shoes, but when he felt his wallet in his inside pocket, he decided that it would suffice. He was not a fashion plate people rarely are at that age. He was wearing a brown jacket with brown trousers and on his feet he had a pair of brown indoor slippers. Allan Karlsson hesitated as he stood there in the flower bed that ran along one side of the Old Folks' Home. ![]()
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