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Good morning! Today's story is Room on the Room by Julia Donaldstone, illustrated by Axel Schoelfer.

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The witch had a cat, meow, and a very tall hat, and long ginger hair, which she wore in a play.

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How the cat purr and how the witch grinned

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As they sat on their broomstick and flew through the wind

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But how the witch wheeled and how the cat spat

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When the wind blew so weakly it blew off the hat

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Down! cried the witch

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And they flew to the ground

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They searched for the hat

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But no hat could be found

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Then out of the bushes

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On Thundering Path

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There bounded a dog

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With the hat in his jaws

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He dropped it politely

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then eagerly said as the witch pulled the hat firmly down on her head I am a

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dog as can as can be is there room on the broom for a dog like me yes cried

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the witch and the dog clambered on the witch tapped the broomstick and whoosh

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they were gone over the field and the forest they flew the dog wagged his tail

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and the stormy wind blew the witch laughed aloud and held onto her hat but

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away knew the bow from her long ginger plate down cried the weeds and they flew

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to the ground they searched for the bow but no bow could be found then out from

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a tree with a near splitting shrug there flap a green bird via via with the bow

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in her beak she dropped it politely and bent her head low in a bowl I am a bird

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as well as can be is there room on the broom for a bird like me yes cried the

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witch so the bird fluttered on the witch taped the broomstick and was they were

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gone. Over the reeds and the river they flew. The birds shrieked with glee

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and the stormy wind blew. They shot through the sky to the back of beyond. The

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The witch tied her bow but let go on the wand.

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Down! cried the witch, and they flew to the ground.

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They searched for the wand, but no wand could be found.

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Then, all of a sudden, from out of a pond, leapt a dripping wet frog.

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With a dripping wet wand, he dropped it politely, then said with a croak,

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as the witch dried the wand on a flood of her clog.

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I am a frog, as clean as can be. Is there room on the broom for a frog like me?

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Yes, cried the witch, so the frog bounded on.

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The witch tapped the broomstick and whoosh! They were gone.

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Over the moors and the mountains they flew.

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The frog jumped for joy and...

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Crack! Crack!

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The broom snipped in two.

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Down fell the cat and the dog.

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And the frog, down they went tumbling into a bog.

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The witch's half-brown stick flew into a cloud, and the witch heard a roar that was scary and loud.

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It has candy, and witch and chips for my tea.

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No, cried the witch.

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Flagging higher and higher, the dragon flew after her, breathing out fire

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Help! cried the witch

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She looked all around, but no help could be found

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The dragon drew near and liked his lips

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Say, maybe this once I will have witch without chips

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But just as he planned to begin on his feast

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From out of a ditch rose an horrible beast

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It was tall, dark and sticky, unfit for it and far

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It had four prideful heads, it had wings like a bird

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And its terrible voice, when it started to speak, was a yowl and growl and a croak and shriek.

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It tripped and squirtled as it stroked from the ditch.

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And it said to the dragon,

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Bastard! That's my witch!

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The dragon drew back and he started to shake.

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I'm sorry, he squirted. I made a mistake. It's nice to have meet you, but now I must fly.

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And he spread off his wings, and it was off to the sky.

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Then drought flew the bird, and down jumped the frog.

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Down climbed the cat, and few saved the dog.

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And thank you, oh thank you, the grateful witch cried.

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Without you I had been in that dragon's inside

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Then she filled up her cauldron and said with a grin

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Find something, everyone, throw something in

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So the frog, croc, croc, found a lily

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The cat, meow, found a cone

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The bird, pia, pia, found a twig

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And the dog found a bone.

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They threw them all in and the witch stirred them well.

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And while she was stirring, she muttered a spell.

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Iggety, siggety, saggety, zoom!

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Then out rose.

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A truly magnificent broom with seeds for the witch and the cat.

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Meow!

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And the dog, vroom, vroom

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A nest for a bird, leo, leo

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And a shower for the frog, frog, frog

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Yes, cried the witch, moo, moo

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And they all crammed on

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The witch tapped the broomstick and whoosh!

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They were gone!

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The End