Esio Trot by Roald Dahl

Author:Roald Dahl [Dahl, Roald]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780141347349
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Published: 2016-02-11T00:00:00+00:00

From his enormous collection, he easily found a seventeen-ounce tortoise and once again he made sure the shells matched in colour. Then he lowered Tortoise Number 3 on to Mrs Silver’s balcony.

As you will have guessed by now, Mr Hoppy’s secret was a very simple one. If a creature grows slowly enough – I mean very very slowly indeed – then you’ll never notice that it has grown at all, especially if you see it every day.

It’s the same with children. They are actually growing taller every week, but their mothers never notice it until they grow out of their clothes.

Slowly does it, Mr Hoppy told himself. Don’t hurry it.

So this is how things went over the next eight weeks.

In the beginning

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