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Dragons at Crumbling Castle Excerpt
Dragons at Crumbling Castle Excerpt
TERRY PRATCHETT
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of fourteen
tortoises
He lives in England.
mischievous
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Text copyright 2014 by Terry and Lyn Pratchett
Illustrations copyright 2014 by Mark Beech
All stories contained in this collection were originally published in the Childrens
Circle section of the Bucks Free Press in the following publication years.
All stories were previously untitled, and so these titles have been attributed
for the purpose of this collection. Dragons at Crumbling Castle (1966);
Hercules the Tortoise (1968); The Great Speck (1969); Hunt the Snorry (1966);
Tales of the Carpet People (1965); Dok the Caveman (1966);
The Big Race (1968); Another Tale of the Carpet People (1967);
The Great Egg-Dancing Championship (1972); Edwo, the Boring Knight (1973);
The 59A Bus Goes Back in Time (196667);
The Abominable Snowman (1969); The Blackbury Monster (1968);
Father Christmas Goes to Work (1973)
First U.S. edition, 2015
First published in Great Britain in 2014 by Doubleday, an imprint of
Random House Childrens Publishers UK, a Penguin Random House Company.
All rights reserved. For information about permission to reproduce
selections from this book, write to Permissions, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Publishing Company, 215 Park Avenue South, New York, New York 10003.
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Dragons at
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TERRY PRATCHETT
DRAGONS
INVADE
CRUMBLING
CASTLE,
shouted the News Crier (this was the headline),
For full
details hear page nine.
and then he said in a softer voice,
Dragons!
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*In the days of King Arthur, this was a lot more money than it seems today
it would buy, oh, at least a cup of mead and a hunk of goats meat.
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Halt in the
name of the
Friday knight,
he cried in a deep voice, raising his black sword.
But youll
have to
fight me first!
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Certainly not!
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Crack!
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Yield!
yelled Fortnight, and dashed into the bushes. This
woke up Ralph and Fossfiddle, who heard a great
cracking and bashing about. They got up and ran to
Fortnights help.
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back!
Hopscotchalorum,
trempledingotramlines!
he chanted. Open!
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Morning, it said.
Down at the
dragon caves.
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