The Brave Little Kite

“I never can do it , the little kite said ,”

As he looked at others high over his head:
“I know I should fall if I tried to fly
“Try “ said the big kite, “ “Only try ! “
Or I fear you never will learn at all “
But the little kite said , “ I’m afraid I’ll fall.”

The big kite nodded : “ Ah, well, good bye;

I’m off; “ And he rose towards the tranquil sky.
Then the little Kite’s paper stirred at the sight,
And trembling he shook himself free for flight.

First whirling and frightened , then brave grown,

Up , up he rose through the air alone ,
Till the big kite, looking down; could see
The little one rising steadily.

Then how the little kite thrilled with pride,

As he sailed with the big kite side by side!
While far below he could see the ground,
And the boys like small spots moving around.
They rested high in the quite air,
And only the birds and the clouds were there.
“ Oh, how happy I am!”the the little kite cried;
“And all because I was brave,and tried.”
 AN EXTRACT FROM THE WITCHES

Boy: [To Himself] I wonder what happened to

grandma’s thumb. Maybe it had been twisted off. Or
perhaps she had been forced to jam it down the spout
of a boiling kettle until it was steamed away or maybe
some witch pulled it out of her hand like a tooth.[To
Grandma]Grandma are English witches really the most viscous
in the whole world?
Tell me what English witches do, grandma?
What sort of creature do they change children into?
Eeek! A slug? That’s perfectly beastly!
Then one of the grown-ups steps on the slug and
Squishes it without knowing it’s child ! what other
Creature?

A flea!

So your own mother would kill you with flea powder!

You’re making me nervous grandmamma. I don’t think
I want to go back to England.

What? You mean these horrid English witches actually

Change children into pheasants so that they get shot and
Killed. Then they get plucked and roasted and eaten for
supper. Just imagine me a pheasant getting shot!
Ouch! I really don’t want to go back to England,
Grandma .

Are witches different in every country?

Don’t you even know about American witches?
Oh no grandma. That couldn’t be true ! How can they
Make grown-ups eat their own children?
They burn them into hot dogs? That wouldn’t be too
Difficult for a clever witch .

Does every single country in the world have its own

Witches?

A secret society of witches in every country? And do

They all know one another?
That means an English witch knows all the other
Witches in England? They are all friends! Then they
must be calling each other up and exchanging deadly
recipes.
Who is the greatest witch of all in the world?

Their ruler?

They have meetings?

And she travels from country to country giving orders!

They have meetings in ordinary hotels like other

Ordinary women? Like business meetings! They do?? I
can’t believe that! Why doesn’t someone catch the
Grand High Witch and kill her?

Witchophiles have tried? What’s a witchophile

grandma?

I see! A person who studies all about witches. Are you

a witchophile?

Oh! You used to be one. Is the Grand High Witch rich?

She makes money?

With a machine like the Government’s? Even foreign
money? She’s a bad, bad woman grandma.

Roald Dahl