

Spectrum



Paddington and the disappearing ink



MICHAEL & KAREN BOND



Collins Educational





USING THE PROGRAMS



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below.)

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start of your program. Type in LOAD"" (no name needed), ENTER and

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Spectrum



Paddington and the disappearing ink



MICHAEL & KAREN BOND



Collins Educational







One morning Paddington was in the garden

testing some tricks from his conjuring outfit

when he came across one he hadn't noticed

before.

	It was called MAGIC DISAPPEARING INK

and it looked very interesting indeed.



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There were three bottles inside the box,

	There was a black bottle which was full of

everlasting ink that never disappeared; a red

one containing some special ink which

vanished soon after you had put it on; and a

green bottle full of liquid which you brushed

on to bring the words back again.

	It sounded very good value indeed.



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Paddington was very keen on trying anything

new and he decided he would write a

postcard to his Aunt Lucy telling her all about

it.

	Paddington's Aunt Lucy lived in the Home

for Retired Bears in Lima and she liked

getting postcards, although he wasn't able to

send her one very often because the stamps

were expensive and he didn't always have

enough bun money left at the end of the

week.

	All the same, he felt sure she would like a

"magic" postcard.



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First of all he wrote her address on the front

of the card. He did it with the special

everlasting ink in case the postman had

trouble delivering it. It cost a lot of money to

send even a postcard to Peru and

Paddington didn't want to risk losing it.



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"Spying!" bellowed Mr. Curry. "How dare

you, bear!"

	He glared at the bottle in Paddington's

paw. "What have you got there?"

	"It's some special 'magic' ink, Mr. Curry,"

said Paddington.

	"Magic ink, eh?'" said Mr Curry. A crafty

look came into his eyes. " That sounds just

what I need for my garden labels. I've been

planting some seeds and I don't trust the

birds."



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"I always tie the empty packets onto sticks to

show where they are," continued Mr. Curry.

"But I'm sure they look at the pictures. There's

one at it already. What I need is some ink

that won't come off. Even birds can't read,"

he added with a chuckle.



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	"Oh, they won't be able to read this ink,

Mr. Curry,"said Paddington truthfully. He

was about to add that Mr. Curry wouldn't be

able to read it either, but before he had a

chance to the Browns' neighbour had

grabbed the bottle.



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"If all my seeds come up," said Mr. Curry, as

he let Paddington back into his own garden,

"I may give you five pence, but that won't be

for several weeks."



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Paddington had a nasty feeling he would

be hearing from the Browns' neighbour long

before then, but he didn't stop to argue.



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Once inside the safety of his own garden,

Paddington consulted the book belonging to

his conjuring outfit.



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He was rather hoping there might be

some instructions on how to make bears

disappear, but he was out of luck.



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In any case, he had hardly reached the end of

the first chapter when Mr Curry's head

reappeared over the top of the fence.



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"Bear!" he bellowed for the umpteenth

time that morning. "What trickery have you

been up to now? All the writing on my labels

has vanished, And I've thrown the seed

packets away. I shan't know where anything

is now."



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Paddington took a deep breath. "Well,

Mr. Curry," he said. "I've got some special

liquid that will make it come back again. But

I'm afraid its expensive."

	"Expensive?" repeated Mr. Curry. "How

expensive?"

	"Very," said Paddington firmly. "But you

can pay me for it in stamps if you like."



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Mr. Curry gave Paddington a long hard look

and then took out his purse. He knew when

he was beaten.

	"If you like," said Paddington generously,

"you can keep the bottle until the seeds start

to come up before you use it. Then no-one will

know which seeds are where."



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Paddington had suddenly realised Mr Curry

had done him a good turn. Unless he'd sent

the bottle to his Aunt Lucy she wouldn't have

been able to make the words reappear

anyway.

	He was about to fill in the missing spaces

on his postcard with the everlasting ink when

he had an even better idea.



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He made lots of drawings instead.



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Before he posted his card, Paddington added

another postscript.



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Spectrum





One morning Paddington was in the garden testing some tricks from

his conjuring outfit when he came across one he hadn't noticed before.



It was called magic disappearing ink and it looked very interesting

indeed.



So starts Paddington's encounter with the magic ink. Join him and help

Paddington write his postcard.



For junior school pupils.



Introduces and practices basic letter writing skills and activities.

The programs in this pack are:



LETTER

TYPEWRITER

POSTHASTE

WORDCHECK

PERU



Programs devised by Peter McBride with material by Michael

and Karen Bond.



Spectrum 16K and 48K





Collins Educational



