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R O A L D D A H L

Roald Dahl
Danny the Champion of the World
The Filling-station
When I was four months old, my mother died suddenly and my father was left to look after me all by
himself. This is how I looked at the time.
I had no brothers or sisters.
So all through my boyhood, from the age of four months onward, there were just the two of us, my father
and me.
We lived in an old gipsy caravan behind a filling-station. My father owned the filling-station and the
caravan and a small field behind, but that was about all he owned in the world. It was a very small
filling-station on a small country road surrounded by fields and woody hills.
While I was still a baby, my father washed me and fed me and changed my nappies and did all the
millions of other things a mother normally does for her child. That is not an easy task for a man,
especially when he has to earn his living at the same time by repairing motor-car engines and serving
customers with petrol.
But my father didn’t seem to mind. I think that all the love he had felt for my mother when she was alive
he now lavished upon me. During my early years, I never had a moment’s unhappiness or illness and here
I am on my fifth birthday.
I was now a scruffy little boy as you can see, with grease and oil all over me, but that was because I
spent all day in the workshop helping my father with the cars.
The filling-station itself had only two pumps.

Plot Summary
Danny is only four months old when his mother suddenly dies; and at the beginning of the story, he lives with his widowed father, William, in a
gypsy caravan, where William operates a filling station and garage. When Danny is nine years old, he discovers that William has habitually
taken part in poaching pheasants from the estate of local magnate Mr. Hazell. One night, at 2:10 a.m., Danny discovers William's absence and,
fearing some misfortune, drives an Austin Seven to Hazell's Wood, where he eventually finds his father in a pit-trap, disabled by a broken ankle,
and brings him home. While William is recovering from his injury, he and Danny learn that Mr. Hazell's annual pheasant-shooting party is
approaching, which he hosts for dukes, lords, barons, baronets, wealthy businessmen etc., and decide to humiliate him by capturing all the
pheasants in the forest. To this end, Danny suggests that he and William should put the contents of sleeping pills prescribed by their surgeon Doc
Spencer inside raisins which are then scattered in the woods.
Having poached 120 pheasants from Hazell's Wood, William and Danny hide them at the local vicar's house, while they take a taxi home. The

next day, Mrs. Clipstone, the vicar's wife, delivers the sleeping pheasants in a specially-built oversized baby carriage; but the narcotic effect
ceases, and many of the pheasants attempt to escape. Still drugged, they all perch around the filling station, just as Mr. Hazell himself arrives.
With the help of Sgt. Enoch Samways, the local constable, William and Danny herd the groggy pheasants onto Mr. Hazell's Rolls Royce; but
when they have woken up completely, the birds escape, and Mr. Hazell drives off in disgrace. The book ends when Danny is hailed as "the
champion of the world" by William, Doc Spencer, and Sgt. Samways, of whom most acquire two pheasants each of which has died of a drug
overdose. William and Danny then walk towards town, intending to buy a new oven to cook their pheasants.