title: I Beg Your Pardon, But This Is My Garden!
author: Stephen Kindland
description: After winning several awards and traveling throughout the country during a lengthy journalism career, Stephen Kindland has turned his attention to writing children's books and freelance articles from his home in Northeast Florida. He plans to publish a second book titled The All-Natural Book of Children's Poems in the spring of 2014. A native of Jamestown, New York, Kindland served as a child development worker after graduating from the University of New York at Buffalo. His career change, along with a subsequent degree in journalism from the University of Florida, enabled him to become a voice for children as well as a staunch advocate for child safety and a healthy environment.
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  Title: Coming Up For Air
  
  
  Author: George Orwell
  
  
  'He's dead, but he won't lie down'
  
  
  Popular song
  
  
  
  
  
  ## PART I
  
  
  ### 1
  
  
  
  
  
  The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth.
  
  
  I remember the morning well. At about a quarter to eight I'd
  
  
  nipped out of bed and got into the bathroom just in time to shut
  
  
  the kids out. It was a beastly January morning, with a dirty
  
  
  yellowish-grey sky. Down below, out of the little square of
  
  
  bathroom window, I could see the ten yards by five of grass, with
  
  
  a privet hedge round it and a bare patch in the middle, that we call
  
  
  the back garden. There's the same back garden, some privets, and
  
  
  same grass, behind every house in Ellesmere Road.
  
  
  Only difference--
  
  
  where there are no kids there's no bare patch in the middle.
  
  
  I was trying to shave with a bluntish razor-blade while the water
  
  
  ran into the bath. My face looked back at me