Chapter 7 Part 2

Part 2

A

1.I heard a sigh of relief going up from all the witches in the room as they kicked off their narrow high-heeled shoes, and then I got a glimpse under the chairs of several pairs of stockinged feet, square and completely toeless.

2.Revolting they were, as though the toes had been sliced away from the feet with a carving-knife.

3."You may rrree-moof your vigs!" snarled The Grand High Witch.

4.She had a peculiar way of speaking.

5.There was some sort of a foreign accent there, something harsh and guttural, and she seemed to have trouble pronouncing the letter w.

B

1.As well as that, she did something funny with the letter r.

2.She would roll it round and round her mouth like a piece of hot pork-crackling before spitting it out.

3."Rrree-moof your vigs and get some fresh air into your spotty scalps!"

4.she shouted, and another sigh of relief arose from the audience as all the hands went up to the heads and all the wigs (with the hats still on them) were lifted away.

5.There now appeared in front of me row upon row of bald female heads, a sea of naked scalps, every one of them red and itchy-looking from being rubbed by the linings of the wigs.

C

1.I simply cannot tell you how awful they were, and somehow the whole sight was made more grotesque because underneath those frightful scabby bald heads, the bodies were dressed in fashionable and rather pretty clothes.

2.It was monstrous.It was unnatural.Oh heavens, I thought.

3.Oh help! Oh Lord have mercy on me! These foul bald-headed females are child-killers every one of them, and here I am imprisoned in the same room and I can't escape!

D

1.At that point, a new and doubly horrifying thought struck me.

2.My grandmother had said that with their special nose-holes they could smell out a child on a pitch-black night from right across the other side of the road.

3.Up to now, my grandmother had been right every time.

4.It seemed a certainty therefore that one of the witches in the back row was going to sniff me out at any moment and then the yell of "Dogs' droppings!"

5.Would go up all over the room and I would be cornered like a rat.

E

1.I knelt on the carpet behind the screen, hardly daring to breathe.

2.Then suddenly I remembered another very important thing my grandmother had told me.

3."The dirtier you are," she had said, "the harder it is for a witch to smell you out."

4.How long since I had last had a bath?Not for ages.

5.I had my own room in the hotel and my grandmother never bothered with silly things like that.

F

1.Come to think of it, I don't believe I'd had a bath since we arrived.

2.When had I last washed my hands or face?

3.Certainly not this morning.Not yesterday either.

4.I glanced down at my hands.

5.They were covered with smudge and mud and goodness knows what else besides.

G

1.So perhaps I had a chance after all.

2.The stink-waves couldn't possibly get out through all that dirt.

3."Vitches of Inkland!" shouted The Grand High Witch.

4.She herself I noticed had not taken off either her wig or her gloves or her shoes.

5."Vitches of Inkland!" she yelled.

H

1.The audience stirred uneasily and sat up straighter in their chairs.

2."Miserrrable vitches!" she yelled.

3."Useless lazy vitches! Feeble frrribbling vitches! You are a heap of idle good-for-nothing vurms!"

4.A shudder went through the audience.

5.The Grand High Witch was clearly in an ugly mood and they knew it.

6.I had a feeling that something awful was going to happen soon.

I

1."I am having my breakfast this morning," cried The Grand High Witch, "and I am looking out of the vindow at the beach, and vot am I seeing?

2.I am asking you, vot am I seeing? I am seeing a rrreevolting sight!

3.I am seeing hundreds, I am seeing thousands of rrrotten rrree-pulsive little children playing on the sand!

4.It is putting me rrright off my food!

5.Vye have you not got rrrid of them?" she screamed.

6."Vye have you not rrrubbed them all out; these filthy smelly children?"