Chapter 15 Part 2

Part 2

A

1.It was identical to the one The Grand High Witch had had in the Ballroom.

2.There was a label on this one.

3.FORMULA 86, it said.

4.DELAYED ACTION MOUSE-MAKER.

5.Then it said, This bottle contains five hundred doses.

B

1.Eureka! I felt tremendously pleased with myself.

2.Three frogs came hopping out from under the bed.

3.They crouched on the carpet, staring at me with large black eyes.

4.I stared back at them.

5.Those huge eyes were the saddest things I had ever seen.

C

1.It suddenly occurred to me that almost certainly once upon a time they had been children, those frogs, before The Grand High Witch had got hold of them.

2.I stood there clutching the bottle and staring at the frogs.

3."Who are you?" I asked them.

4.At that exact moment, I heard a key turning in the lock of the door and the door burst open and The Grand High Witch swept into the room.

5.The frogs jumped underneath the bed again in one quick hop.

D

1.I darted after them, still clutching the bottle, and I ran back against the wall and squeezed in behind one of the bedposts.

2.I heard feet walking on the carpet.I peeped round the bedpost.

3.The three frogs were clustered together under the middle of the bed.

4.Frogs cannot hide like mice.They cannot run like mice, either.

5.All they can do, poor things, is to hop about rather clumsily.

E

1.Suddenly The Grand High Witch's face came into view, peering under the bed.

2.I popped my head back behind the bedpost.

3."So there you are, my little frrroggies," I heard her saying.

4."You can stay vhere you are until I go to bed tonight, then I shall thrrrow you out of the window and the seagulls can have you for supper."

5.Suddenly very loud and clear there came the sound of my grandmother's voice through the open balcony door.

F

1."Hurry up, my darling!" it shouted."Do hurry up! You'd better come out quickly!"

2."Who is calling?" snapped The Grand High Witch.

3.I peeped round the bedpost again and saw her walking across the carpet to the balcony door.

4."Who is this on my balcony?" she muttered.

5."Who is it? Who dares to trrrespass on my balcony?"

6.She went through the door on to the balcony itself.

G

1."Vot is this knitting-vool hanging down here?" I heard her saying.

2."Oh, hello," came my grandmother's voice.

3."I just dropped my knitting over the balcony by mistake.

4.But it's all right.I've got hold of one end of it.

5.I can pull it up by myself, thank you all the same." I marvelled at the coolness of her voice.

H

1."Who vur you talking to just now?" snapped The Grand High Witch.

2."Who vur you telling to hurry up and come out quickly?"

3."I was talking to my little grandson," I heard my grandmother saying.

4."He's been in the bathroom for hours and it's time he came out.

5.He sits in there reading books and he forgets completely where he is! Do you have any children, my dear?"

I

1."I do not!" shouted The Grand High Witch, and she came quickly back into the bedroom, slamming the balcony door behind her.

2.I was cooked.My escape route was closed.

3.I was shut up in the room with The Grand High Witch and three terrified frogs.

4.I was just as terrified as the frogs.

5.I was quite sure that if I was spotted, I would be caught and thrown out over the balcony for the seagulls.

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