Digory The Dragon Slayer by McAllister Angela

Author:McAllister, Angela [McAllister, Angela]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

A LITTLE DETOUR

DIGORY and Barley plodded out of the valley and up the hill, then down the hill and through the cornfields. Then up another hill, through a dark forest and down the other side again.

Digory grew cold and hungry. The clouds swelled dark and grey. They seemed to soak up all his bravery like a sponge. Digory thought of the King and Queen and Enid playing marbles in front of the fire.

Then he thought of his mother in the smithy, laughing as the sparks flew off her anvil, while Arthur, Tom and Ethelburg roasted chestnuts in the furnace.

Poor Digory felt forgotten and sbiverous from the top of his cold helmet down to his chilly tin boots.

Eventually he came to a hazel wood where nuts and blackberries grew. He stopped to eat and gave Barley a humbug. Then he remembered the King’s map in his pocket.

Digory unrolled the map and studied the kingdom of King Widget. It looked rather hurriedly drawn, with the castle sketched in the middle and Gnasher’s cave marked by a red cross. Ten leagues to the south of the dragon’s cave, Digory noticed a blue squiggle. Looking closer he discovered it was a dolphin’s head rising out of a curly wave. It was the sea.

Now, Digory had never seen the sea. He’d heard songs and stories about it. He had seen cockles and crabs at the market. But he’d always wondered what the sea was really like.

A small, tempting thought started to murmur in Digory’s head. You never said exactly when you were going to slay the dragon, the thought whispered. No one would notice if you took a long route and went to the sea on your way, it went on enticingly. And then you never know, the dragon might even have gone away by the time you come back...

Suddenly, a commotion of rooks croaked loudly overhead. They seemed to screech, ‘Jaw-dripping, flesh-ripping, bone-crunching, snout-snarling, bloodthirsty dragon!’

That decided it.

‘We’re going to the sea,’ Digory told Barley. ‘We might slay the dragon when we get back!’

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