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Pictorial<br />
Jenny and the witches<br />
Jenny and her cat, Lily, were spying on three witches behind a high hedge. Each<br />
witch wore a long robe and a pointy hat, and each held a broom. A large wart<br />
stood out on each witch’s long, narrow nose. Jenny wondered if witches treated<br />
warts as beauty spots. Did they have a spell to give them one? The smallest witch<br />
cradled a big book under her arm. Jenny whispered to Lily, ‘We know what’s in<br />
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that, don’t we?’ The hags were standing beside a large cauldron. It hung from<br />
a triangular frame over a lively fire whose flames licked wildly up the pot’s side.<br />
Jenny couldn’t see into the cauldron, but she could certainly smell the stench from<br />
it! Whatever the brew was, it stank as rank as a sewer. Jenny was almost gagging<br />
from it. A couple of pets, a cat and a bird, stood in front of the cauldron. The bird<br />
was watching a little frog that had climbed out of a bucket and was hopping away.<br />
Jenny hoped the frog would escape, but one witch half-turned to it. Or had she<br />
sensed Jenny behind the hedge?<br />
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COMPREHENSION THROUGH CLOZE <strong>Book</strong> 4 978-1-922426-73-4 R.I.C. Publications ® www.ricpublications.com.au
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