Most people -- and especially small children -- are often quite scared of being out of doors alone in the moonlight. the Earthworm groaned. shouted the Centipede, kicking himself free, and James was promptly flung across the room into the Old-Green-Grasshopper's horny lap. Why don’t we go and get us a shovel right away and dig out a great big hunk of it for you and me to eat?”. said the Ladybug. Miss Spider suggested. "But nothing could be worse than this desolate hilltop and those two repulsive aunts of yours --" "Hear, hear!" The children jumped up onto the truck and swarmed like ants all over the giant peach, eating and eating to their hearts' content. "Standback!" "Tell me what's happening!" Personally, I would rather drown." You watch it!" Oh, if only he hadn't slipped and fallen and dropped that precious bag. They never called him by his real name, but always referred to him as "you disgusting little beast" or "you filthy nuisance" or "you miserable creature," and they certainly never gave him any toys to play with or any picture books to look at. "This is the end!" We may die in an earthquake or tremor. . Let us plunge! The Glow-worm slowly opened one eye and stared at the Centipede. "Pull!" This building happened to be a famous factory where they made chocolate, and almost at once a great river of warm melted chocolate came pouring out of the holes in the factory wall. "But what tremendous tall buildings!" the Centipede said, limping across the room. 12/4/05 "Now I can keep my boots on after all." "We are now about to visit the most marvelous places and see the most wonderful things! They screamed. “And Auntie Spiker! Stew for another week, and then let the moon do the rest!" Aunt Spiker shouted. "Cheer up, Earthworm! Aunt Spiker was shouting. Look what happened to Aunt Sponge after she'd done that! "I'm sorry! “Good heavens, he’s right again!” cried the Old-Green-Grasshopper, clapping his hands. (But don't forget to sprinkle them with just a pinch of grime.) "That's why there are so many of them circling around. the Ladybug asked. "Because we gobble up all the nasty little insects that are gobbling up all the farmer's crops. Even the Silkworm, looking white and thin and completely exhausted, came creeping out of the tunnel to watch this miraculous ascent. . It had started out well, with much laughing and shouting, and for the first few seconds, as the peach had begun to roll slowly forward, nobody had minded being tumbled about a little bit. "Good heavens, he's right again!" "Hear, hear!" He was crawling uphill now, as though the tunnel were leading straight toward the very center of the gigantic fruit. They all stopped talking and listened. And the seagulls kept coming, and James caught them one after the other and tethered them to the peach stem. And I should know because I personally have tasted all the finest foods in the world!" By lunchtime, the whole place was a seething mass of men, women, and children all pushing and shoving to get a glimpse of this miraculous fruit. And if I take off both my socks You'll see my dainty toes." The bow of the violin, the part that moved, was his back leg. the Old-Green-Grasshopper said to the Centipede. They were dead and gone in thirty-five seconds flat. They were out of it and it was all over. . The Promised Land! A shark, you see, has an extremely long sharp nose, and its mouth is set very awkwardly underneath its face and a long way back. gasped James, clinging to the stem of the falling peach. Hurry!" There are people on it! "I tell you I don't like it," muttered the Captain. "It's a vermicious Knid! It was all very silent and mysterious. I am a musician." "He's blind. Or a spider? . "Oh, marvelous!" . It's as thick as your finger! They all looked up and saw a great mass of seagulls wheeling round and round in the sky. This was the five hundred and first seagull, and the moment that James caught it and tethered it to the stem with all the others, the whole enormous peach suddenly started rising up slowly out of the water. "Quickly!" "Of course I'm right," the Earthworm said. “It’s just perfect! . "I don't like it," the Captain said. As a toy for your children he's perfectly sweet; There's nothing so good in the shops - You've only to tickle the soles of his feet And he hops and he hops and he hops." Because if they do escape, then they will be working their magic upon somebody else instead of upon you ! the Centipede shouted back, grinning more broadly than ever and showing his brown teeth. . I am a decent person.”. There was, of course, a bit of a hole in the bottom of it where the spike of the Empire State Building had gone in, but who cared about that -- or indeed about the peach juice that was dripping out of it onto the street? An insect is usually something rather small, is it not? Suddenly, the great brown head of the Centipede appeared over the side of the peach. And don't whisper a word of this to those two horrible aunts of yours! "Are any of them dangerous?" Everybody swung round to look. "Ow!" "In their legs. "Ssshh!" The main characters of this childrens, fantasy story are James Henry Trotter, . Like some fabulous golden balloon. shouted the Chief of Police. The original text plus a side-by-side modern translation of. "But how did it happen?" chapter, said Miss Spider. Miss Spider cried. shouted the Old-Green-Grasshopper, hopping up and down with excitement. cried the Earthworm. shouted James, jumping up and down with excitement. "Yes, yes!" All right!" "We certainly went down and down and down very suddenly at the last moment. Look down there!" "On with the faucets!" "It's not true!" The Ladybug, who was obviously a kind and gentle creature, came over and stood beside him. . "Oh my!" It isn't very far -- and I feel so hot and awful and lonely. 930-Main.QX5 "It has to stop now!" Where is England?" "Everyone's famished!" "It's coming down! "It's full of holes and the juice is dripping out everywhere!" "It's got nothing to do with you whatsoever! Let us bowl! "But I really did love that little boy." "They are from Outer Space!" "Nor can I," wailed the Glow-worm. The door slammed. 'A disgusting spider! And she's already made and sent A waistcoat for your President." I can't move my legs! The first edition of the novel was published in 1961, and was written by Roald Dahl. . He was just there, thrusting a faintly glowing bag at James. "Come on," said the Centipede. . “I won’t let them touch you,” he said. "Why aren't we sinking?" 9 Hungry and trembling, James stood alone out in the open, wondering what to do. What's more, I can spin patterns." "Try again," said the Old-Green-Grasshopper, smiling at James. Is everybody ready to go upstairs now and take a look around?" "We've left them behind!" "My friends, this is the Centipede, and let me make it known He is so sweet and gentle that (although he's overgrown) The Queen of Spain, again and again, has summoned him by phone To baby-sit and sing and knit and be a chaperone When nurse is off and all the royal children are alone." cried the Earthworm. For the first time since entering the room, James glanced up at the ceiling -- and there he saw a most extraordinary sight. she suggested. He could actually see them wriggling and twisting as they burrowed their way downward into the hard earth, and at once he reached out a hand to pick some of them up before it was too late, but they disappeared right under his fingers. Then at last, when it had become nearly as tall as the tree that it was growing on, as tall and wide, in fact, as a small house, the bottom part of it gently touched the ground -- and there it rested. Here's one coming now!" "We are lost!" Surely you can see that?" "James!" "You're absolutely off your head!" yelled the Chief of Police. "You won't believe this," she said, "but actually there's hardly any damage down there at all! "Think, James, think!" "It's slowing down, Spiker, it's slowing down! And then suddenly, while he was doing this, he happened to notice that right beside him and below him, close to the ground, there was a hole in the side of the peach. plop! "Thank you so much, my dear lady," the Old-Green-Grasshopper said, climbing into the hammock. They started to run. And then all at once, little shivers of excitement started running over the skin on James's back. "Ssshh! "It only just missed me! he ordered. . "Off with my boots!" In another minute, this mammoth fruit was as large and round and fat as Aunt Sponge herself, and probably just as heavy. the Centipede asked. "You must come up and see this!" I'm glad you made it." screamed the Head of the Fire Department. . "I won't let them touch you," he said. To make it worse, something went wrong with the Glow-worm's lighting system, and the room was in pitchy darkness. "Pulling his leg!" "Listen! 4 James Henry Trotter stood there clutching the bag and staring at the old man. they shouted. I can't walk! "That enormous arch -- they seem to be painting it! You haven't paid!" Don't bite any more, Centipede, or we'll sink too fast! "Why don't we hear what the plan is first?" Bump! a voice was suddenly shouting in James's ear. "Thousands!" . "You look positively ill!" "It lost an awful lot of juice when all those hailstones hit it in the night. Come here at once and look at this!" James could see the skyscrapers rushing up to meet them at the most awful speed, and most of them had square flat tops, but the very tallest of them all had a top that tapered off into a long sharp point-like an enormous silver needle sticking up into the sky. We may see a terrible Monster with toes Growing out of the tufts of his hair. And all the time while they were waiting they could hear the sharks threshing around in the water below them. "It's a Whangdoodle!" "Or his neck, maybe," Aunt Sponge said hopefully. Today and tomorrow and the next day and all the other days as well would be nothing but punishment and pain, unhappiness and despair. "Help! "You're mad!" Aunt Sponge cried out, "Magnifico! "It really is a little boy, isn't it?" "Our Captain is not well." said the Ladybug primly. "Not me!" Each time the tips of his fingers were just about to touch them, they vanished into the earth! Your Aunt Spiker and I are going to have it between us right here and now, half each. "The Earthworm, on the other hand," Said James, beginning to expand, "Is great for digging up the land And making old soils newer. "But my dear Spiker, that's perfectly ridiculous. "But it's dark!" The country must be warned! "How on earth did you get to be like that?" Where is there?" "Now we're worse off than before!" And kindly line them up neatly in pairs as you take them off. "Now if he stuck out his tongue," the Earthworm said, smiling a little for perhaps the first time in his life, "if he stuck it out really far, then we could all catch hold of it and start pulling.

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