Chapter 8 Part 3

Part 3

A

1.After tventy-six seconds, child is not a child any longer.

2.It is a mouse!""A mouse!" cried the witches.

3."What a frumptious thought!""Classrooms vill all be svorrrming vith mice!" shouted The Grand High Witch.

4."Chaos and pandemonium vill be rrreigning in every school in Inkland! Teachers vill be hopping up and down!

5.Vimmen teachers vill be standing on desks and holding up skirts and yelling, 'Help, help, help!' "

B

1."They will! They will!" cried the audience.

2."And vot", shouted The Grand High Witch, "is happening next in every school?"

3."Tell us!" they cried."Tell us, O Brainy One!"

4.The Grand High Witch stretched her stringy neck forward and grinned at the audience, showing two rows of pointed teeth, slightly blue.

5.She raised her voice louder than ever and shouted, "Mouse-trrraps is coming out!"

C

1."Mouse-traps!" cried the witches.

2."And cheese!" shouted The Grand High Witch "Teachers is all rrrushing and rrrunning out and getting mouse-trrraps and baiting them vith cheese and putting them down all over school!

3.Mice is nibbling cheese! Mouse-trrraps is going off!

4.All over school, mouse-trrraps is going snappety-snap and mouse-heads is rrrolling across the floors like marbles!

5.All over Inkland, in everrry school in Inkland, noise of snapping mouse-trrraps vill be heard!"

D

1.At this point, the disgusting old Grand High Witch began to do a sort of witch's dance up and down the platform, stamping her feet and clapping her hands.

2.The entire audience joined in the clapping and the foot-stamping.

3.They were making such a tremendous racket that I thought surely Mr Stringer would hear it and come banging at the door.But he didn't.

4.Then, above all the noise, I heard the voice of The Grand High Witch screaming out some sort of an awful gloating song,

5."Down vith children! Do them in!Boil their bones and fry their skin!

E

1.Bish them, sqvish them, bash them, mash them!

2.Brrreak them, shake them, slash them, smash them!

3.Offer chocs vith magic powder!

4.Say 'Eat up!' then say it louder.

5.Crrram them full of sticky eats,Send them home still guzzling sveets.

F

1.And in the morning little fools Go marching off to separate schools.

2.A girl feels sick and goes all pale.

3.She yells, 'Hey look! I've grrrown a tail!'

4.A boy who's standing next to her Screams, 'Help! I think I'm grrrowing fur!'

5.Another shouts, Wee look like frrreaks!There's viskers growing on our cheeks!

G

1.A boy who vos extremely tall Cries out, 'Vot's wrong? I'm grrrowing small!'

2.Four tiny legs begin to sprrroutFrom everybody rrround about.

3.And all at vunce, all in a trrrice,There are no children! Only mice!

4.In every school is mice galoreAll rerunning rrround the school-rrroom floor!

H

1.And all the poor demented teachers.Is yelling, 'Hey, who are these crrreatures?'

2.They stand upon the desks and shout,'Get out, you filthy mice! Get out!

3.Vill someone fetch some mouse-trrraps, please!

4.And don't forrrget to bring the cheese!'

5.Now mouse-trrraps come and every trrrap.Goes snippy-snip and snappy-snap.

I

1.The mouse-trrraps have a powerful spring,The springs go crack and snap and ping!

2.Is lovely noise for us to hear!Is music to a vitch's ear!

3.Dead mice is every place arrround,Piled two feet deep upon the grrround,Vith teachers searching left and aright,But not a single child in sight!

4.The teachers cry, 'Vot's going on?Oh vhere have all the children gone?

5.Is half-past nine and as a rrrule.They're never late as this for school!'

J

1.Poor teachers don't know vot to do.

2.Some sit and rrread, and just a few.

3.Amuse themselves throughout the day.

4.By sveeping all the mice avay.

5.AND ALL US VITCHES SHOUT HOORAY!"