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Derry is a fourteen-year-old boy. He walks slowly and hesitantly through the long grass of Mr. Lamb’s garden. He stops for a short while and then walks on again. Derry comes round a screen of bushes so that when Mr. Lamb warns him to mind the apples, he is quite close. Derry is surprised and asks who is there. Mr. Lamb tells his name to him and asks him to be careful as crab apples fallen in the long grass might not be trampled. Derry tells him that he thought it was an empty house. Mr. Lamb comments that the house was empty indeed as he was in the garden.
Mr. Lamb says it being a beautiful day, he would prefer to stay in the garden. Derry says that he has got to go. Mr. Lamb says that the gate is always open and he does not mind who comes in the garden. He tells Derry that he only climbed the wall. Derry says that he had not come to steal anything. Mr. Lamb replied that young boys steal and scrump the apples but Derry was not so young.