Chapter 7 Part 2

Part 2 

A

1.He could hardly see her for the smoke, but he managed to pour half a jugful down her throat.

2.A sizzling sound, the kind you get if you hold a hot frying-pan under a cold tap, came up from deep down in Grandma's stomach.

3.The old hag bucked and shied and snorted.

B

1.She gasped and gurgled.

2.Spouts of water came shooting out of her.

3.And the smoke cleared away.

4.'The fire's out,' George announced proudly.

5.'You'll be all right now, Grandma.' 'All right?' she yelled.

C

1.'Who's all right? There's jacky-jumpers in my tummy!

2.There's squigglers in my belly! There's bangers in my bottom!'

3.She began bouncing up and down in the chair.

4.Quite obviously she was not very comfortable.

5.'You'll find it's doing you a lot of good, that medicine, Grandma,' George said.

D

1.'Good?' she screamed. 'Doing me good? It's killing me!'Then she began to bulge.

2.She was swelling! She was puffing up all over!

3.Someone was pumping her up, that's how it looked!

4.Was she going to explode? Her face was turning from purple to green!

5.But wait! She had a puncture somewhere!

6. George could hear the hiss of escaping air.

E

1.She stopped swelling. She was going down.

2.She was slowly getting thinner again, shrinking back and back slowly to her shrivelly old self.

3.'How's things, Grandma?' George said. No answer.

4.Then a funny thing happened.

F

1.Grandma's body gave a sudden sharp twist and a sudden sharp jerk and she flipped herself clear out of the chair and landed neatly on her two feet on the carpet.

2.'That's terrific, Grandma!' George cried.

3.'You haven't stood up like that for years! Look at you! You're standing up all on your own and you're not even using a stick!'

4.Grandma didn't even hear him.

G

1.The frozen pop-eyed look was back with her again now.

2.She was miles away in another world.

3.Marvellous medicine, George told himself.

4.He found it fascinating to stand there watching what it was doing to the old hag.

5.What next? he wondered. He soon found out.

H

1.Suddenly she began to grow.

2.It was quite slow at first .just a very gradual inching upwards .

3.up, up, up .inch by inch .getting taller and taller .

4.About an inch every few seconds . and in the beginning George didn't notice it.

I

1.But when she had passed the five foot six mark and was going on up towards being six feet tall, George gave a jump and shouted,

2.'Hey, Grandma! You're growing! You're going up! Hang on, Grandma!

3.You'd better stop now or you'll be hitting the ceiling!'

4.But Grandma didn't stop.

J

1.It was a truly fantastic sight, this ancient scrawny old woman getting taller and taller, longer and longer, thinner and thinner, as though she were a piece of elastic being pulled upwards by invisible hands.

2.When the top of her head actually touched the ceiling, George thought she was bound to stop. But she didn't.

K

1.There was a sort of scrunching noise, and bits of plaster and cement came raining down.

2.'Hadn't you better stop now, Grandma?' George said.

3.'Daddy's just had this whole room repainted.

4.'But there was no stopping her now.

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