Raz lz117 Reluctantdragonpart1 CLR
Raz lz117 Reluctantdragonpart1 CLR
Raz lz117 Reluctantdragonpart1 CLR
Dragon The
A Reading A–Z Level Z1 Leveled Book
Word Count: 3,617
eluctant
Writing
Connections
Dragon
Part 1
Classic St or ies
Dragon
armistice placidly
bashfully ramping
Part 1
complacently scouring
eerie skirmishing
Kenneth Grahame intrude sonnets
(1859–1932)
Kenneth Grahame was Photo Credits:
Title page: © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Getty Images; page 3:
Scottish, but he spent © Victoria Ryabinina/iStock/Thinkstock
“Oh, no trouble at all,” said the circus-man, Our spirits rose to their wonted level again.
cheerfully. “I should be only too pleased. But of The way had seemed so long, the outside world
course, as you say, it may be a mistake. And it’s so dark and eerie, after the bright warm room and
getting dark, and he seems to have got away for the highly-coloured beast-book. But a walk with
the present, whatever he is. a real Man—why, that was a treat in itself! We set
off briskly, the Man in the middle. Charlotte made
“You’d better come in and have some tea. I’m
herself heard from the other side.
quite alone, and we’ll make a roaring fire, and
I’ve got the biggest Book of Beasts you ever saw. “Now, then,” she said, “tell us a story, please,
It’s got every beast in the world, and all of ’em won’t you?”
coloured; and we’ll try and find your beast in it!”
“Saw who?” said his wife, beginning to share “Only a dragon?” cried his father. “What do
in her husband’s nervous terror. you mean, sitting there, you and your dragons?
Only a dragon indeed! And what do you know
“Why him, I’m a-telling you!” said the
about it?”
shepherd. “He was sticking half-way out of the
cave, and seemed to be enjoying of the cool of the “’Cos it is, and ’cos I do know,” replied the Boy,
evening in a poetical sort of way. He was as big quietly. “Look here, father, you know we’ve each
as four cart-horses, and all covered with shiny of us got our line. You know about sheep, and
scales—deep-blue scales at the top of him, shading weather, and things; I know about dragons.
off to a tender sort o’ green below.