Esio TrotShy Mr. Hoppy devises a plan to win the heart of his true love by teaching her a spell to make her tortoise grow bigger. |
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Page 23
... hand . " I'm going to lower it to you on a bit of string , " he said , " or it might blow away . Here it comes . " Mrs Silver caught the paper and held it up in front of her . This is what she read : ESIO TROT , ESIO TROT , TEG REGGIB ...
... hand . " I'm going to lower it to you on a bit of string , " he said , " or it might blow away . Here it comes . " Mrs Silver caught the paper and held it up in front of her . This is what she read : ESIO TROT , ESIO TROT , TEG REGGIB ...
Page 35
... hand - lever so that the claws opened wide . Then he lowered the two claws neatly over Alfie's shell and pulled the lever . The claws closed tightly over the hell like two fingers of a hand . He hauled Alfie up on to his own balcony ...
... hand - lever so that the claws opened wide . Then he lowered the two claws neatly over Alfie's shell and pulled the lever . The claws closed tightly over the hell like two fingers of a hand . He hauled Alfie up on to his own balcony ...
Page 36
... hand , he picked his way carefully through his huge collection of tortoises to find one that first of all had the same colour shell as Alfie's and secondly weighed exactly two ounces more . Two ounces is not much . It is less than. 36.
... hand , he picked his way carefully through his huge collection of tortoises to find one that first of all had the same colour shell as Alfie's and secondly weighed exactly two ounces more . Two ounces is not much . It is less than. 36.
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afternoon Alfie's balcony rail become a tortoise beside a nice bit smaller cabbage leaves claws closed claws opened colour crawl crispy celery darling door EGROG ELBBOG DOOF ELZZUG EMOC ESIO TROT FFUP PU FFUTS fifteen ounces GNIRPS PU grow happened hibernated hold Alfie holding the tortoise Hoppy chose Hoppy popped Hoppy took Hoppy's secret kitchen scales lettuce little bit bigger little house little tortoise living room LLEWS PU long metal looking magic words metal claws morning North Africa ounces End pet shops pet tortoise popped his head PUT ON FAT Roberta shouting Silver answered Silver cried Silver had gone Silver was saying Silver's balcony slowly smile stroking his shell TEG REGGIB REGGIB tell thirteen ounces TIB RELLAMS titchy TOOHS PU tortoise language Tortoise Number tortoise-catcher TUP NO TAF twenty-seven ounces twice as big week TORTOISE weigh Alfie weighed exactly whispering endear WOLB PU WORG PU