Gauge by Chris D'Lacey

Author:Chris D'Lacey [D'Lacey, Chris]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781408315385
Publisher: Hachette Children
Published: 2011-04-07T00:00:00+00:00

Gauge took it between his paws. The battery immediately began to crackle and an arc of blue light sparked between his ear tips. A puff of smoke came out of his nostrils. The end of his tail began to jiggle.

“Are you all right?” asked Lucy.

Gauge nodded and put the battery down. Gwendolen, Lucy’s own special dragon, who sat in the shadow of her bedside lamp, asked if she might have a go at holding it. Lucy said no and tapped the watch again.

Gauge peered at the workings. He could see two metal wheels with zigzagging teeth all around their perimeters. The wheels were meshed together. Neither wheel was moving, but it was obvious to Gauge that they would do if this energy cell that Lucy called a battery was to power them. He drummed his claws. He felt sure there were more workings underneath the wheels and pointed to another circle of metal that had a straight groove cut across it. There were lots of these, of different sizes, all over the back of the watch.

“They’re called screws,” said Lucy. “If you turn them, they sort of open.”

Gauge’s eyes lit up in wonder. This was a far more interesting timing machine than the clock in the kitchen. He pointed to the screws again, one by one, and to his amazement they began to unwind by themselves.

“Wow, that’s clever,” gasped Lucy.

Now Gauge grew bolder still. As the screws fell out of their holes, he flipped aside the covering they’d been holding in place to reveal an assembly of wheels and cogs and levers and springs.

Before long, it was all in pieces on Lucy’s table.

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