The Great Monster by Terry Deary

Author:Terry Deary [Deary, Terry]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781472950345
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2018-05-15T00:00:00+00:00

The dust rose in a cloud and made the watching old woman sneeze. ‘You need a good bath before you go, if you ask me,’ she sniffled.

Enkidu was taken back to the palace and bathed in the milk of twenty asses. Then he was fed with the richest food in the land, from the tongues of a thousand larks to the brains of a butchered bear.

When he had feasted and rested for a week, the king’s servants made him armour of the hardest boiled leather, and gave him a spear, a shield and a sword.

But Enkidu said he wanted an axe with a long handle, so that is what they made him. The axe was so heavy it took two strong men to lift it. Enkidu lifted it with one hand.

‘This will cut down a cedar tree with one blow,’ he boasted.

‘One blow?’ His new friend Gilgamesh gasped.

‘Well... maybe two,’ Enkidu said.

The palace kitchens filled sacks with beef and ox tongues – they had run out of larks – and with bread and fruits. The two warriors carried leather bottles of water and wine.

No one in Uruk worked that day. They all went to the old and rotten wooden gates to say goodbye to the heroes.

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