Their meetings were often at night in the stables or in the hay meadow at dawn where they played, chatted endlessly and watched the soaring skylarks in the clouds. They sent each other coded letters, left in a secret gap behind a plank in the stable. It was Giles who came up with the code to use. ‘Seeing as you’re mad about skylarks, why don’t we learn these lines from a poem called The Skylark?’ He showed Freddy a page from a poetry book: Opening their golden caskets to the sun, The buttercups make schoolboys eager run, To see who shall be first to pluck the prize – Up from their hurry, see, the skylark flies ‘All we have to do is number the lines and letters, and we can make secret messages that no one else will understand if they find them. So long as we don’t need the letters J, Q, V, X and Z we’ll be fine. So, to write the word Freddy all I have to do is find an F, which is in line 4 and the third letter. So F is 4:3.
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