Mr Skip. Michael Morpurgo

what Mum and I want more than anything else? First we want to build stables for all the horses on the estate, so they don’t get all cold and miserable in the winter. Then we want to get off this lousy place. We’re always on about it, always dreaming. We’d like a little house of our own in the country where there’s green fields all around and hills and big wide skies, and no high buildings. And she’ll keep chickens and ducks, and I’ll have my own horse. I don’t care what he’s like really. Four legs and a tail, that’s all I want. I’m not fussy, so long as he goes fast. I want to gallop out over the hills, splash through the rivers, jump the hedges.