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The Germans came to search our house, which was maybe two or three years later I don鈥檛 know why, but they came to search the house, and they searched 鈥� they burst into the door, and went upstairs, went everywhere looking for anything, we didn鈥檛 know quite what it was they were looking for. But after they鈥檇 gone, my old grandfather said, 鈥淥h, that鈥檚 got them鈥�, he said. 鈥淭hey didn鈥檛 find my gun that was outside鈥�, and my mother and father, they nearly had a fit, because if that had been found at that time, they would have been shot. My grandfather surely would have been, because that was the one terrible thing to keep was a gun, you can imagine going around the island with a gun, shooting perhaps the Germans. So my mother and father said, 鈥淲ell look, Gramp, we can鈥檛 hand it in now; the Germans are going to think, 鈥極h, that鈥檚 strange, you鈥檝e got a gun鈥�, so we鈥檒l have to all keep quiet, and you children will have to keep quiet as well. Grandpa鈥檚 hidden this gun in the sawdust in the back yard, so we鈥檒l have to just keep quiet and hope they don鈥檛 come again.鈥�
MOLLY BIHET

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