Chapter 12 Part 2

Part 2

A

1.Then very quickly the frightful burning searing scorching feeling started spreading down into my chest and into my tummy and on and on into my arms and legs and all over my body! 2.I screamed and screamed but once again the gloved hand was clapped over my lips.

3.The next thing I felt was my skin beginning to tighten.

4.How else can I describe it? It was quite literally a tightening and a shrinking of the skin all over my body from the top of my head to the tips of my fingers to the ends of my toes!

B

1.I felt as though I was a balloon and somebody was twisting the top of the balloon and twisting and twisting and the balloon was getting smaller and smaller and the skin was getting tighter and tighter and soon it was going to burst.

2.Then the squeezing began.

3.This time I was inside a suit of iron and somebody was turning a screw, and with each turn of the screw the iron suit became smaller and smaller so that I was squeezed like an orange into a pulpy mess with the juice running out of my sides.

C

1.After that there came a fierce prickling sensation all over my skin (or what was left of my skin) as though tiny needles were forcing their way out through the surface of the skin from the inside, and this, I realise now, was the growing of the mouse-fur.

2.Far away in the distance, I heard the voice of The Grand High Witch yelling, "Five hundred doses!

3.This stinking little carbuncle has had five hundred doses and the alarm-clock has been smashed and now vee are having instantaneous action!"

4.I heard clapping and cheering and I remember thinking: I am not myself any longer! I have gone clear out of my own skin!

5.I noticed that the floor was only an inch from my nose.

D

1.I noticed also a pair of little furry front paws resting on the floor.

2.I was able to move those paws.They were mine!

3.At that moment, I realised that I was not a little boy any longer.

4.I was A MOUSE."Now for the mouse-trrrap!" I heard The Grand High Witch yelling.

5."I've got it right here! And here's a piece of cheese!"

E

1.But I wasn't going to wait for that.

2.I was off across the platform like a streak of lightning! I was astonished at my own speed!

3.I leapt over witches' feet right and left, and in no time at all I was down the steps and on to the floor of the Ballroom itself and skittering off among the rows of chairs.

4.What I especially liked was the fact that I made no sound at all as I ran.

5.I was a swift and silent mover.

F

1.And quite amazingly, the pain had all gone now.

2.I was feeling quite remarkably well.

3.It is not a bad thing after all, I thought to myself, to be tiny as well as speedy when there is a bunch of dangerous females after your blood.

4.I selected the back leg of a chair and squeezed up against it and kept very still.

5.In the distance, The Grand High Witch was shouting, "Leave the little stinkpot alone!

G

1.It is not vurth bothering about!It is only a mouse now!

2.Somebody else vill soon catch it! Let us get out of here!

3.The meeting is over!Unlock the doors and shove off to the Sunshine Terrace to have tea vith that idiotic Manager!"

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