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Derry enters Mr. Lamb’s garden after climbing the wall. He thought that the place was empty. Mr. Lamb asks him if he had seen him, Derry had not have been in. Derry said that he would not have come because he does not like being near people. Then Mr. Lamb said that then Derry could lock himself up in a room and never leave it.
To illustrate his point Mr. Lamb narrated the story of a man who locked himself in his room because he was afraid of everything in this world. He thought that a bus might run him over, or a man might breathe deadly germs onto him, or a donkey might kick him to death.
Or lightening might strike him down, or he might love a girl and the girl would leave him, and he might slip on a banana skin and fall and people who saw him would laugh. So he went into his room, and locked the door, and got into his bed, and stayed there. Derry asked if (he locked) forever.
Mr. Lamb said that for a while because a picture fell off the wall on his head and killed him. Derry liked the story so much that he laughed a lot. I think he must have realised that seclusion from people is never a solution to the problem.