Billy and the Minpins by Roald Dahl

Billy and the Minpins by Roald Dahl

Author:Roald Dahl
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141377513
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2017-06-28T16:00:00+00:00


Call Up the Swan

While the children were practising on the robins, Little Billy said to Don Mini, ‘Is there no way in the world to get rid of that disgusting Red-Hot Smoke-Belching Gruncher down below?’

‘The only time a Gruncher dies,’ Don Mini said, ‘is if he falls into deep water. The water puts out the fire inside him and then he’s dead. The fire to a Gruncher is like your heart is to you. Stop your heart and you die at once. Put out the fire and the Gruncher dies in five seconds. That’s the only way to kill a Gruncher.’

‘Now hang on a minute,’ Little Billy said. ‘Is there by any chance a pond or something around here?’

‘There’s a big lake on the far side of the forest,’ Don Mini said. ‘But who’s going to entice the Gruncher into that? Not us. And certainly not you. He’d be on you before you got within ten yards of him.’

‘But you did say the Gruncher can’t see in front of him because of all the clouds of smoke he blows,’ Little Billy said.

‘Quite true,’ Don Mini said. ‘But how is that going to help us? I don’t think the Gruncher is ever going to fall into the lake. He never goes out of the forest.’

‘I think I know how to make him fall in,’ Little Billy said.

‘What I want,’ Little Billy went on, ‘is a bird that is big enough to carry me.’

Don Mini thought about this for a while, then he said, ‘You are a very small boy and because of that I think a swan could carry you quite easily.’

‘Call up a swan,’ Little Billy said. Suddenly there was a new authority in his voice.



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