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- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Bless him! I bet he's been saving all his pocket money to buy me this
- Genre
- romance
- Characters
- Tessa Wareham; Mickey Wareham; Dennis Knowles; Skid Lowery
- Synopsis
- Tessa's little brother overhears her tell her boyfriend that she wouldn't mind a Beatle for Christmas. When Tessa opens her Christmas present from him, she discovers in horror that it is a beetle and throws it out the window. Walking outside the window at the time was a student of coleopterology - the study of beetles. Recognizing the beetle as a rare and valuable specimen, he rings to doorbell to inquire if there were any more.
- Reprints
Note at the bottom of the last story page lists the other titles in this series that were currently on sale:
No. 553 - Her Hussar
No. 554 - Castle of Dreams
No. 556 - Miss Lonely Hearts