One Saturday afternoon in a small town,Emma Carter came out of a shoe shop with some new were cheap shoes,but Emma was very pleased with was seventy-three years old and did not have much began to walk home.‘A nice cup of tea,'she thought,'and then I can go for a walk in my new shoes.?’
It was a quiet town and there was nobody in the ,Emma heard something behind did not have time to look,because just then somebody ran up behind
her,hit her on the head,and snatched'her bag out of her fell down on her she looked up,and saw a tall young man with long,dirty brown stood and looked down at her for a second;then he ran away with Emma's bag under his arm.
‘Help!Help!’Emma cried.
But nobody came,and after two or three minutes Emma slowly got up and went to the nearest people there were very gave Emma a cup of tea,and soon
an ambulance came and took her to hospital.
At the hospital a doctor looked at Emma's head and 're going to be OK,'he said.'Just take it easy for a day or your husband help you at home?"
'My husband died eight years ago,'said 's only me at home.?
'Well,the doctor said,'we don't want you to feel ill and fall downstairs at I think you must stay in hospital for tonight,and perhaps'tomorrow night,too.'Later,a policeman came to the hospital and Emma told him about the bagsnatcher.
‘Did anybody see this young man?'he asked.
I don't know,'said Emma.'But there was nobody in the street when I called for help.'
‘Oh dear,'the policeman said.‘What was in your bag?'
‘A little money -and a lottery ticket,'said buy a ticket every on Saturday evening I watch the lottery'on always have the same numbers -5,12,23,24,38, those numbers are important to was born on 5th December, lived at number 24 Sandwich Road for 38 years …’
‘Yes,yes,'said the policeman.'I understand.'He wrote everything down in a little black book.'Did you see the man's face?’he asked.
‘Yes,'said fell on my back,and he at me for a I saw his face.’
The policeman opened a small it there were a lot of pictures of eyes and ears,hair and need a picture of the man's you help me?”he said.
‘Yes,'said Emma.‘He was tall and he had long,dirty brown wore blue trousers and a white shirt with a picture of a had brown eyes …'Carefully she took the small pictures and made a big picture of the young man's checked the picture carefully.
What colour were his shoes?"asked the policeman
Shoes!Suddenly Emma remembered her new were they?She told the policeman about her shoes,but then she began to cryand could not stop.
A nurse came up to Emma's go now,'she said to the policeman.‘Mrs Carter needs to sleep.'