There was comparative calm in the Wormwood household for about a week after the Superglue episode. The experience had clearly chastened Matilda's father and he seemed temporarily to have lost his taste for boating and bullying. Then suddenly he stuck again because perhaps he had a bad day at the workshop. When he arrived back from the workshop that evening his face was dark as thunder-cloud. He glared at Matilda who was reading a book and began to take it out on her. With frightening suddenness he now began ripping the page out of the book in handfuls and throwing them in the waste-paper basket. Most children in Matilda's place would have burst into floods of tears, but she didn't do that. She sat there very still and white and thoughtful. Her wonderfully subtle mind was already at work devising yet another suitable punishment for the poisonous parent.
The following afternoon, Matilda went to meet Fred who was her friend and had a great talking parrot. After she borrowed the parrot which could say "Hello, hello, hello!" and "Rattle my bones!" from Fred and came home, she set about wedging the cage up the chimney which was in the dining-room. That evening while the mother, the father, the brother and Matilda were having supper as usual in the living-room, a voice came loud and clear from the dining-room across the hall. "Hello, hello, hello," it said. They were frightened to hear that voice. The mother told her husband to go and look, but he was petrified with terror. After a while, They decided to go and look together. When they arrived at the dining-room, the voice came once again. "Rattle my bones," it said. They all jumped, including Matilda. They stared round the room, but there was still no one there, so they except Matilda stood rooted to the spot in sheer terror. She was very satisfied with this revenge.
I am looking forward to reading her next revenge!
The following afternoon, Matilda went to meet Fred who was her friend and had a great talking parrot. After she borrowed the parrot which could say "Hello, hello, hello!" and "Rattle my bones!" from Fred and came home, she set about wedging the cage up the chimney which was in the dining-room. That evening while the mother, the father, the brother and Matilda were having supper as usual in the living-room, a voice came loud and clear from the dining-room across the hall. "Hello, hello, hello," it said. They were frightened to hear that voice. The mother told her husband to go and look, but he was petrified with terror. After a while, They decided to go and look together. When they arrived at the dining-room, the voice came once again. "Rattle my bones," it said. They all jumped, including Matilda. They stared round the room, but there was still no one there, so they except Matilda stood rooted to the spot in sheer terror. She was very satisfied with this revenge.
I am looking forward to reading her next revenge!
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