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evaporated in a puff of ghostly smoke!
    “It’s working!” Giles called out.
    “I should have brought my ghostometer,” Tina said.
    “We don’t need the ghostometer!” said Giles. “Can’t you see, it’s working!”
    The birds were blinking out like burned-out light-bulbs, faster and faster. As Giles watched, he felt a ghostly prickle move up his spine. He looked over his shoulder. The ghost of Melanie Jones had appeared amongst the cages.
    “Look,” Giles whispered, pointing.
    “She’s the one who interrupted my shower,” mumbled Mrs Barnes.
    The ghost of Melanie Jones didn’t look sad anymore; she was smiling, nodding and smiling as she watched her birds eating the best and biggest meal ever. Then she began to fade, faint and silvery, until there was nothing left. After that the rest of the ghost birds vanished with little pops of light until all the cages in Giles’s room were finally empty.
    “You must be a genius!” Kevin said to Giles. “You’ve done it!”
    “It was completely unscientific,” said Tina in a shaky voice, “and yet it seems to have been successful.”
    “Not completely,” said Mrs Barnes in a stern voice. “Look at this!”
    The regal ghost parrot was perched on her shoulder.
    “Hello, hello!” it said.
    “No, look, it’s fading, too!” said Giles.
    “Good-bye, good-bye,” said the parrot, and, with a little puff of light, it was gone.
    “Well, that’s a relief,” said Mrs Barnes.
    “You looked pretty good with a parrot,” said Mr Barnes, hugging his wife.
    “Well, they’re all gone now,” said Giles, gazing at the empty cages. Strangely, the house seemed too quiet, and he felt a twinge of sadness. He hadn’t realized it, but he’d become rather fond of the birds, and all their noise and activity. The ghosts had kept him so busy he hadn’t even had a chance to miss his old friends. In fact, he’d made some new ones. Maybe the summer wouldn’t be so bad after all.
    “What are we going to do with all that seed?” Mr Barnes said.
    “And the cages?” said Mrs. Barnes.
    “Maybe,” Giles said with a smile, “we should get some birds.”

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