And when he got there he couldn’t believe his eyes. By the time he had walked over to his old home, and she’d got ready to go, and they’d walked together back to his new home, it was starting to get dark. When it was done, he went back to get his Mum, so she could come and see.
WHO SAID AN EYE FOR AN EYE WINDOWS
He watched the builders put the roof on and finish painting the walls, windows and doors. Later that day he saw that Marcus had a black eye, just like his own. So Jerry waited for Marcus to come out of his house the next day and surprised him with a punch in the eye. He gives you a black eye, you need to give him one back - the same he did to you, no more, no less.’ He takes your bricks, you take them right back. That means whatever he does has to be returned to him. ‘Listen’ she warned sternly, ‘We say ‘An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth’. ‘You need to go and find him and hit him back’, was her answer. That evening, Jerry went back to his Mum and told her what had happened. He bunched up his fist and punched Jerry in the face. Marcus couldn’t think of any answer to that - except one. ‘How do you know these are yours?’ sneered Jerry. ‘How do you know those were yours?’ challenged Marcus. Just as they were finishing that job, the man who had stolen the bricks, whose name was Marcus, arrived. With the help of the builders he carried all the bricks back to his own land and the builders got to work putting up the walls of the new house. His mum told him to steal the bricks back.
Jerry was sure they were the same bricks because he counted them - 500 - and they still had some of the plastic packaging attached. They had been moved to the garden of another house about 100m down the road. The next morning Jerry went there with the builders but all the bricks were gone. He found a small piece of land to build his house on and ordered 500 bricks, which were delivered to that spot. One day he decided it was time to move out and get a house of his own.
There was a young man called Jerry, who lived with his mother.