Chapter 14

Chapter 14

Marvellous Medicine Number Four

Part 1 

A

1.Back in the kitchen once again, George, with Mr Kranky watching him anxiously, tipped half a pint of engine oil and some anti-freeze into the giant saucepan.

2.'Boil it up again!' cried Mr Kranky.

3. 'Boil it and stir it!' George boiled it and stirred it.

4.'You'll never get it right,' said Mrs Kranky.

5.'Don't forget you don't just have to have the same things but you've got to have exactly the same amounts of those things. And how can you possibly do that?

B

1. ''You keep out of this!' cried Mr Kranky.

2.'We're doing fine! We've got it this time, you see if we haven't!'

3.This was George's Marvellous Medicine Number Four, and when it had boiled for a couple of minutes, George once again carried a cupful of it out into the yard.

4.Mr Kranky ran after him. Mrs Kranky followed more slowly.

C

1.'You're going to have some mighty queer chickens around here if you go on like this,' she said.

2.'Dish it out, George!' cried Mr Kranky.

3. 'Give a spoonful to that one over there!' He pointed to a brown hen.

4.George knelt down and held out the spoon with the new medicine in it.

5.'Chick-chick,' he said.'Try some of this.

D

1.'The brown hen walked over and looked at the spoon.

2.Then it went peck.'Owch!' it said.

3.Then a funny whistling noise came out of its beak.

4.'Watch it grow!' shouted Mr Kranky.

E

1.'Don't be too sure,' said Mrs Kranky.

2.'Why is it whistling like that?''Keep quiet, woman!' cried Mr Kranky.

3. 'Give it a chance!'They stood there staring at the brown hen.

4.'It's getting smaller,' George said.

5. 'Look at it, dad.It's shrinking.'And indeed it was.

6.In less than a minute, the hen had shrunk so much it was no bigger than a new-hatched chick. It looked ridiculous.

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