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No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored ina retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise) without the prior written permission of Scholastic Limited.  \nPrinted by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY Papers used by Scholastic Children’s Books are made from wood grown in sustainable forests.  \n1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2  \nThis is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, incidents and dialogues are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual people, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.  \n[www.scholastic.co.uk](www.scholastic.co.uk)  \nPrologue  \nMrs Emmett’s Visitor  \nThere were many things Nora Emmett disapproved of. These included whistling, tropical fruit, sandals, children who didn’t hold doors open for her, children who assumed she needed doors opening for her – in fact she pretty much disapproved of children altogether. However, at this moment as she sat up in bed listening to the darkness, the thing she disapproved of most of all was whatever had woken her at three o’clock in the morning.  \nShe didn’t have long to wait before the sheep started bleating again. Reaching out into the darkness, she struck a match and lit the oil lamp  \n1  \nALfieBloomFInal. indd 1  \n14/04/2015  \n16:25  \non the night stand with an uncanny accuracy that came from years of practice. Mrs Emmett didn’t quite trust electricity yet.  \nThe brass bedstead creaked as she got up, wriggled into her tartan slippers and shuffled downstairs to investigate.  \nSetting the oil lamp down next to the stove, she pulled the kitchen nets aside and peered out into the night. The bleating had died down to an occasional terrified baa. Whatever had frightened the sheep was still out there. It was probably the same rustlers that had taken two cows from the Merryweather farm last month. Well, they weren’t going to get any of her flock. She pulled on her overcoat and wellies, grabbed her shotgun from the pantry and filled her pockets with cartridges from the biscuit tin next to the teabags.  \nThe kitchen door clicked shut behind her as she stepped outside. Tucking the shotgun under her arm, she hitched up her nightie and crept through the orchard, silently weaving between the twisted plum trees towards the sheep pen. The new moon cast only a little light on to the farm, which was shrouded in the kind of darkness that makes it impossible to seeyour own feet. The dark didn’t bother her. She didn’t approve of the kind of skies where the glow of street  \n2  \nlights was always present and you couldn’t see the stars. This was night as it should be.  \nThe bleating had stopped and the sheep were eerily silent now. Nearing the pen, she could make out wet crunching noises punctuated with deep grunts. Something was in with the sheep and it wasn’t human. Could it be wolves? She hadn’t heard of wolves in Hexbridge, not for many years.  \nHer eyes adjusted to the blackness and she could just about make out a mass of sheep huddled together in one corner of the pen. The whole flock was constantly in motion ","cbCaibX3kI249wke","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaibX3kI249wke","pdf",680494,29,"English","# Prologue\n## Mrs Emmett’s Visitor\n# The Raven","[{\"question\":\"What happens when Mrs Emmett tries to use the shotgun against the creature?\",\"answer\":\"She fires shots into the dark mass, but the gun eventually fails to fire when she aims between the eyes of the closest creature. The creature’s presence culminates in an intense flash that ends her worries forever.\"}]","ALFIE BLOOM - The Raven | PDF",45]