The gang disbanded
After Mrs Cameron kicked us out.
Why? Maybe …
Setting her fence afire
While burning plastic from wire.
Geoff Jones**, another gang-member,
Fell backwards from the tree-house,
Landed on a brick-pile.
Convinced he was dead,
But he stood up and laughed.
From then, to us, he was invincible.
Note:
* This is another Short Memory thanks to Bill Joyner. When he set me this material his closing line about our gang was:
Imagine today if such a gang of 10 year olds was uncovered! It would make the national news.
There would undoubtedly be outrage.
** Geoff wasn’t in the photo I posted in yesterday’s Short Memory. He is in the photo of 4th Class at Penrith Primary. He is front row, 3rd from the right. Peter Cameron, who had the tree in his backyard is in the 2nd row, far right.
1965 Penrith Primary – Class 4A
365 Short Memories 
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