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BILLY – the Bright Blue Ball - a Welsh children's adventure story for Christmas - the first in a series of fictional short stories by Don Hale.

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  BILLY – the Bright Blue Ball - a Welsh  children's adventure story for Christmas... The first in a series of fictional short stories by Don Hale. BILLY  – the Bright Blue Ball - a  Welsh  children's adventure story for Christmas... The first in a series of fictional short stories by Don Hale. BILLY woke with a start to the sound of a small boy tapping a coin on the shop window. As he slowly opened his heavy eyes, he could see someone staring back at him. It was unnerving. Billy was in the far corner of the window.  He felt rather uncomfortable and was perched on a soft pack of coloured plasticine, which was at precisely the same height as the boy’s eyes. Each day at exactly 3.30pm, this very same boy passed by the window with his mother on his home from school. It was an old-fashioned toy and gift shop in a small village on the Llyn Peninsula.  The window was a magnet for children of all ages. It seemed like an Aladdin’s cave in 1959 packed full of goodies. It had everything