B1

=//Do I Stay or Do I Go?// = = =
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"Get up! Get up right now, lazybones!” Your friend, Thomas, is yelling in your ear, It seems like he’s trying to shake your arm off. “Leave me alone!” you grumble. This is the best sleep you’ve had in days. You’ve finally found a quiet and somewhat soft place to sleep—an unused horse stall in a hidden alley. Finding a place like this to catch some shut eye is nearly impossible in London. You raise your head and squint through the uneven slats of the stall. By the look of it, the sun has just come up, and you do //not// want to be woken up yet! But Thomas is determined. “You //have// to get up—the sheriff’s deputy is coming down the alley right now.” Uh-oh. Now you understand Thomas’s urgent grasp on your arm. If the sheriff’s deputy finds you, you’ll be arrested for vagrancy and locked up in a prison cell. You might be branded with a “V” or worse. . . It is against the law in England to be jobless, even though you can’t seem to find work anywhere.

**// WHAT DO YOU DO? //** Stay in bed. The deputy probably won’t see you anyway, and you are really tired. Run! You definitely don’t want to find out what will happen if you get caught!


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