Chapter 8 Part 2

Part 2 

A

1. 'Come on, chicken,' George said.'Good chicken. Chick-chick-chick.

2.'The brown hen stretched out its neck towards the spoon and went peck.

3.It got a beakful of medicine.

4.The effect was electric.

5.'Oweee!' shrieked the hen and it shot straight up into the air like a rocket.

B

1.It went as high as the house.

2.Then down it came again into the yard, splosh.

3.And there it sat with its feathers all sticking straight out from its body.

4.There was a look of amazement on its silly face.

5.George stood watching it.

6.Grandma up on the roof was watching it, too.

C

1.The hen got to its feet.

2.It was rather shaky.

3.It was making funny gurgling noises in its throat.

4.Its beak was opening and shutting.

5.It seemed like a pretty sick hen.

D

1.'You've done it in, you stupid boy!' Grandma shouted.

2.'That hen's going to die! Your father'll be after you now! He'll give you socks and serve you right!'

3.All of a sudden, black smoke started pouring out of the hen's beak.

4.'It's on fire!' Grandma yelled.

E

1.'The hen's on fire!'George ran to the water-trough to get a bucket of water.

2.'That hen'll be roasted and ready for eating any moment!' Grandma shouted.

3.George sloshed the bucket of water over the hen.

4.There was a sizzling sound and the smoke went away.

5.'Old hen's laid its last egg!' Grandma shouted.

6.Hens don't do any laying after they've been on fire!

F

1.'Now that the fire was out, the hen seemed better.

2.It stood up properly. It flapped its wings.

3.Then it crouched down low to the ground, as though getting ready to jump. It did jump.

4.It jumped high in the air and turned a complete somersault, then landed back on its feet.

G

1.'It's a circus hen!' Grandma shouted from the rooftop.

2.'It's a flipping acrobat! 'Now the hen began to grow.

3.George had been waiting for this to happen.

4.'It's growing!' he yelled.

5.'It's growing, Grandma! Look, it's growing!' Bigger and bigger . taller and taller it grew.

H

1.Soon the hen was four or five times its normal size.

2.'Can you see it, Grandma?!' George shouted.

3.'I can see it, boy!' the old girl shouted back.

4. 'I'm watching it!' George was hopping about from one foot to the other with excitement, pointing at the enormous hen and shouting, 'It's had the magic medicine, Grandma, and it's growing just like you did!'

I

1.But there was a difference between the way the hen was growing and the way Grandma grew.

2.When Grandma grew taller and taller, she got thinner and thinner.

3.The hen didn't. It stayed nice and plump all along.

4.Soon it was taller than George, but it didn't stop there.

J

1.It went right on growing until it was about as big as a horse.

2.Then it stopped.

3.'Doesn't it look marvellous, Grandma!' George shouted.

4.'It's not as tall as me!' Grandma sang out.

5.'Compared with me, that hen is titchy small! I am the tallest of them all!'

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