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Barney Quotes

Six of the best book quotes from Barney
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“He lay quiet and looked around the cave again. Now that his eyes were used to it he could see further into the dark part of the cave. There was somebody there! Or Something!”
Clive King
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Stig of the Dump
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Barney
character
not alone
something
somebody
caves
seeing in the dark
concepts
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“A robin puffed its breast on a rose tree and squeaked at him. Barney suddenly wasn’t sure that he believed in Stig himself. It wasn’t a Stiggish day, like yesterday when he had fallen down the pit.”
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“If there wasn’t a hole it was because somebody had mended it! Stig wasn’t the sort of person to leave a large hole in his roof for long. Not his friend Stig!”
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“Of course- the flint! He looked at it glinting in the sunlight, like a black diamond with its chipped pattern. He’d seen Stig make it! There was no mistake about that. Of course Stig was real!”
Barney
Stig
characters
flint
real
tokens
concepts
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″‘Golly!’ he said. ‘You are clever! I bet my Granddad couldn’t do that, and he’s very good at making things.”
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“Barney had a feeling, somewhere in his middle, that it was probably true about the ground giving way. But still, there was a difference between being told and seeing it happen.”

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