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Humor To The Story 'Dragon, Dragon' By John Gardner
John Gardner brought humor to his story, “Dragon, Dragon” in many different ways. There was a variety of different ways he brought the humor to the reader. This tale takes place in a kingdom from what seems to be a long time ago but yet, John Gardner has added some things from modern times. John Gardner has developed some funny and interesting characters to his tale, “Dragon, Dragon.”

The tale starts out with a dragon. But this dragon is no ordinary dragon. This dragon does mischievous things. The dragon does weird things like putting firecrackers into cars or just steal from people. The king was fed up with the dragon. The King tried to send the wizard to slay the dragon but, the wizard has misplaced his spellbook. The king rallied up everyone
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