Book: Debut Singles and Grandmother
Roald Dahl
THE WITCHES
Copyright © Roald Dahl, 1983
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NOTICE :
This is copyright material. This eBook was for my personal archive use only, as provided under the "fair use" provision of the Copyright Law. If you somehow got hold of this eBook file, by whatever means, and you do not own a copy of the original book, please delete this file immediately. I will not be held responsible for your actions after you have been properly advised.
-nihua__________
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A Note about Witches
In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks.
But this is not a fairy-tale. This is about REAL
WITCHES.
The most important thing you should know about REAL
WITCHES is this. Listen very carefully. Never forget what is coming next.
REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ORDINARY JOBS.
That is why they are so hard to catch.
A REAL WITCH hates children with a red-hot sizz-ling hatred that is more sizzling and red-hot than any hatred you could possibly imagine.
A REAL WITCH spends all her time plotting to get rid of the children in her particular territory. Her passion is to do away with them, one by one. It is all she thinks about the whole day long. Even if she is working as a cashier in a supermarket or typing letters for a businessman or driving round in a fancy car (and she could be doing any of these things), her mind will
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always be plotting and scheming and churning and burning and whiz-zing and phizzing with murderous bloodthirsty thoughts.
"Which child," she says to herself all day long, "exactly which child shall I choose for my next squelching?"
A REAL WITCH gets the same pleasure from squel-ching a child asyou get from eating a plateful of strawberries and thick cream.
She reckons on doing away with one child a week.
Anything less than that and she becomes grumpy.
One child a
THE WITCHES
Copyright © Roald Dahl, 1983
__________
NOTICE :
This is copyright material. This eBook was for my personal archive use only, as provided under the "fair use" provision of the Copyright Law. If you somehow got hold of this eBook file, by whatever means, and you do not own a copy of the original book, please delete this file immediately. I will not be held responsible for your actions after you have been properly advised.
-nihua__________
1
A Note about Witches
In fairy-tales, witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks, and they ride on broomsticks.
But this is not a fairy-tale. This is about REAL
WITCHES.
The most important thing you should know about REAL
WITCHES is this. Listen very carefully. Never forget what is coming next.
REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ORDINARY JOBS.
That is why they are so hard to catch.
A REAL WITCH hates children with a red-hot sizz-ling hatred that is more sizzling and red-hot than any hatred you could possibly imagine.
A REAL WITCH spends all her time plotting to get rid of the children in her particular territory. Her passion is to do away with them, one by one. It is all she thinks about the whole day long. Even if she is working as a cashier in a supermarket or typing letters for a businessman or driving round in a fancy car (and she could be doing any of these things), her mind will
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always be plotting and scheming and churning and burning and whiz-zing and phizzing with murderous bloodthirsty thoughts.
"Which child," she says to herself all day long, "exactly which child shall I choose for my next squelching?"
A REAL WITCH gets the same pleasure from squel-ching a child asyou get from eating a plateful of strawberries and thick cream.
She reckons on doing away with one child a week.
Anything less than that and she becomes grumpy.
One child a