Boekverslag: Daantje de wereldkampioen
Roald Dahl
1975
Cox&Wyman Ltd
Set in Lynotype Pilgrim
At. Blz.: 172
The story:
When Danny was 4 months old his mother died. William (Danny?s father) and Danny lived in a gypsy caravan (woonwagen). William owned a little filling station (benzene station), surrounded by fields and woody hills. William had built his own workshop by himself. There is no electricity in the gypsy caravan, because it?s too dangerous for having electricity in such an old gypsy caravan. They have a paraffin lamp. Near the gypsy caravan stood an apple tree.
William smiled not with his mouth, but when he was proud or happy, his eyes twinkled. That can never be a false laugh. He used to tell Danny stories like. The Big Friendly Giant (the BFG), he makes magic powder out of the dreams what children dream when they?re asleep. The BFG catches mysterious `clouds`, nobody can see or even hear them, the BFG can. He has a suitcase (for taking his dreams to towns) and a blowpipe (to blow the dreams into sleeping children?s rooms).
When Danny was 5 years old, he should to go to school, but William didn?t want him to go. He wanted to make an expert mechanic of Danny. Danny should go to school if he?s 7 years old. On Danny?s 8th birthday he became an amazing machine which he called Soapo. It was made of 4 bicycle wheels and several soapboxes, it had a break-pedal, a steering wheel, a comfortable seat and a strong bumper.
William is poaching pheasants in the dead of night. Danny found out when he woke up in the middle of the night, and saw his father wasn?t in the caravan. When W. came at the caravan, he told the story he had learnt poaching of his father (Danny?s grandfather).
There are 2 secret methods of successfully poaching pheasants:
1. The horse-hair stopper: Danny?s grandfather found out that pheasants love raisins. You first make the raisins in water plump, soft and juicy. Then you need a bit of good stiff horsehair and cut it into half inches length. Then you put one of these lengths through the middle of a raisin. If the pheasants eat it, it will stick in the pheasant?s throat.
2.The sticky head: First of all you dig a little hole in the ground. Then you twist a piece of paper into the shape of a cone and you fit it in the hole, hollow end up. You smear the inside of the paper with glue and put the raisins in it and you lay a trail of raisins along the ground, leading to the piece of paper. The pheasant will gobble up the raisins he?ll see anything.
William is poaching on Hazel?s wood, because that?s where the pheasants are, and because he didn?t like Mr Hazel. His reason for not liking Mr Hazel is:
When he came to the filling station for filling his car, he said in an unfriendly way that Danny
Shouldn?t dirty his car. This night William will go poaching at twilight (schemering) because of twilight everything inside the wood becomes veiled and shady. You can see to move around but it is not easy for someone else to see you and you can hide in the shadow of another thing. William is going to use sticky head. He?s fond of it. He will be back at ten thirty.
Danny?s father wasn?t back when Danny woke up at ten minutes past two. Danny got the Baby Austin to get his father. Maybe he?s shot by a keeper and couldn?t walk any further. There was one problem with the car. It couldn?t drive too long in the same gear because it will overheat.
When the police came by Danny had switched his car beside the road hiding himself in the hedge. After the policecar passed for the second time, they didn?t come back again. Danny drove to Hazel?s wood He called his father.
Danny had taken a torch from the workshop. After some time his father called back. His dad sat in a pit. Danny got towrope which lay on the backseat (Mr. Pratchett always carries a towrope in case of breakdown). Danny tied one end of the rope to the nearest tree and with the other end his father came up. When they got home William lay on the floor over a newspaper. Danny helped his father to lie down on the blanket. He put the pillow under his head and covered him with a second blanket. Danny put the phone near his father and went into bed.
Doctor Spencer had been looking after people in Danny?s district for nearly forty-five years. He?s over seventy. He had called an ambulance. He didn?t like Mr. Hazel either because he didn?t step over Betty. He actually kicked him out of the way with his riding boo. Then doctor Hazel had left him waiting in the waiting room and picked the oldest needle he had and made it as a bunt as a ballpoint pen.
Saturday will be the shooting season for pheasants. It is an event of Mr. Hazel. There will be many people of all grades: dukes, lords, barons and baronesses. William?s dream is to poach all two hundred pheasants and when the party begins Mr. Hazel would say that there are many pheasants and if everybody will seek them, there is none. Danny says it is impossible. Danny had found a manner to poach pheasants in a way the tree keepers wouldn?t know there are poachers in Hazel?s wood. William got fifty sleeping pills for his broken leg. There should be two hundred pheasants, so there must be two hundred raisins and in each raisin they will put one quarter of a sleeping pill. At night the pheasants will fall down out of the trees. They have called it the sleeping beauty. They hope they will fix it in two days.
Birdseye was a really nice person. She is a teacher on Danny?s school. Mr. Corrado was in love with her. She was a decent person. The children of the school knew he was in love with her.
Captain Lancaster took the ten and nine years old including Danny. He was a horrid man. He had been a captain during the war against Hitler. That?s why he called himself Captain Lancaster instead of plain mister. Everybody was afraid of him. Mister Snoddy is the headmaster. Everybody liked him. When Danny and Sidney Morgan suddenly came into Mr. Snoddy?s room they saw he had a bottle labelled Gordon?s gin. They wouldn?t tell anybody. Danny says everybody would drink if they had a wife like mister Snoddy. She?s a witch. Captain Lancaster is Danny?s new teacher. Sidney asked something to Danny. They got a very painful hit on their hand. Danny?s father saw it. Danny and William are going to poach pheasants. They prepare all the raisins and closed the filling station. In the evening they went to Hazel?s wood, in the direction of Wendover.
When they arrived William was checking each little shadow and every part of the wood within sight. Danny tried the same, but it didn?t work. There was a keeper fortunately they were at the place with all pheasants. William threw all raisins one by one in the crowd. When the keeper looked behind him William threw a full hand in the crowd and ran away. Outside the wood they said they only had to pick all pheasants from the ground at night. Mister Robberts and a black Labrador saw William and Danny. Mister Robberts knew William from the filling station. He asked William if he had fallen into the pit. He went home. Danny and William are waiting for the pheasants to fall down out of the trees. But William wondered if birds can keep its balance when it?s asleep. Then surely there isn?t any reason why the pills should make it fall down, but Danny said it?s doped and the birds will fall down. And they did!
William and Danny put them into cotton bags and went to their taxi. The driver?s name is Charlie Kinch. He?s a giant at poaching pheasants. William called Danny: the champion of the world.
Danny?s father is so proud of Danny, he says he can?t believe it. Danny and William are walking home and William tells Danny he wants to buy an oven and a freezer to keep them for eating. They?ll give lots of pheasants to friends. Doctor Spencer came to Danny and William. He also calls Danny: the champion of the world. The best way of delivering pheasants safely is in a pram (wandelwagen) with a baby on top. When Mrs Clipstone came with a supper pram and a baby on top the pheasants woke up. The baby was crying, and Mrs Clipstone began running. The pheasants were sitting all over the filling station. Mr Hazell was very angry with William and Danny. He said they stole the pheasants, but William said they knew they would be shot that evening and flew over to the filling station (which was the only part of the land, which wasn?t of Victor Hazell) Sergeant Samway came to the filling station. He had a funny habit of sometimes putting the letter `h` in front of words that shouldn?t have an `h` there at all. And as though to balance things out he would take away the `h` from all the words that should have begun with the letter `h`. Chief Constable is his boss. Mr Hazell said, his boss would fired Sergeant Samway if there would no pheasant on Hazel?s wood, because he?ll come to the event too. Sergeant Samway said he?d push the pheasants over the road. The pheasants were sitting on, and in Victor Hazel?s Rolls Royce. The pheasants were all over the roof and the bonnet (bumper), sliding and slithering and trying to keep a grip on the beautifully polished surface. Their sharp claws were scrapping into the paintwork, and were depositing their dirty droppings all over the roof. Mr Hazell jumped into his car and drove away. All the pheasants flew away over the filling station and the woods. There was none left.
Mrs Grace Clipstone came out of the caravan with her baby Christopher. Dr Spencer had a surprise, because 6 of the 200 pheasants had eaten too many raisins, and would never wake up again. Two of them he gave to Mrs Grace Clipstone, two to William and Danny and two to Enough Samway.
Danny and William will go to Mr Wheeler to buy an oven. They also will go over Cobbers Hill and down the other side is a stream with many trout (forrel). Danny is full of exiting. If they have an oven, the first thing they?ll make is toad in the hole (William favourite thing). They?ll invite Dr. Spencer and his wife to eat with them. They?ll have a dinner party in their honour.
Danny's message to the reader is: His father is the most marvellous and exiting father any boy ever had.
1975
Cox&Wyman Ltd
Set in Lynotype Pilgrim
At. Blz.: 172
The story:
When Danny was 4 months old his mother died. William (Danny?s father) and Danny lived in a gypsy caravan (woonwagen). William owned a little filling station (benzene station), surrounded by fields and woody hills. William had built his own workshop by himself. There is no electricity in the gypsy caravan, because it?s too dangerous for having electricity in such an old gypsy caravan. They have a paraffin lamp. Near the gypsy caravan stood an apple tree.
William smiled not with his mouth, but when he was proud or happy, his eyes twinkled. That can never be a false laugh. He used to tell Danny stories like. The Big Friendly Giant (the BFG), he makes magic powder out of the dreams what children dream when they?re asleep. The BFG catches mysterious `clouds`, nobody can see or even hear them, the BFG can. He has a suitcase (for taking his dreams to towns) and a blowpipe (to blow the dreams into sleeping children?s rooms).
When Danny was 5 years old, he should to go to school, but William didn?t want him to go. He wanted to make an expert mechanic of Danny. Danny should go to school if he?s 7 years old. On Danny?s 8th birthday he became an amazing machine which he called Soapo. It was made of 4 bicycle wheels and several soapboxes, it had a break-pedal, a steering wheel, a comfortable seat and a strong bumper.
William is poaching pheasants in the dead of night. Danny found out when he woke up in the middle of the night, and saw his father wasn?t in the caravan. When W. came at the caravan, he told the story he had learnt poaching of his father (Danny?s grandfather).
There are 2 secret methods of successfully poaching pheasants:
1. The horse-hair stopper: Danny?s grandfather found out that pheasants love raisins. You first make the raisins in water plump, soft and juicy. Then you need a bit of good stiff horsehair and cut it into half inches length. Then you put one of these lengths through the middle of a raisin. If the pheasants eat it, it will stick in the pheasant?s throat.
2.The sticky head: First of all you dig a little hole in the ground. Then you twist a piece of paper into the shape of a cone and you fit it in the hole, hollow end up. You smear the inside of the paper with glue and put the raisins in it and you lay a trail of raisins along the ground, leading to the piece of paper. The pheasant will gobble up the raisins he?ll see anything.
William is poaching on Hazel?s wood, because that?s where the pheasants are, and because he didn?t like Mr Hazel. His reason for not liking Mr Hazel is:
When he came to the filling station for filling his car, he said in an unfriendly way that Danny
Shouldn?t dirty his car. This night William will go poaching at twilight (schemering) because of twilight everything inside the wood becomes veiled and shady. You can see to move around but it is not easy for someone else to see you and you can hide in the shadow of another thing. William is going to use sticky head. He?s fond of it. He will be back at ten thirty.
Danny?s father wasn?t back when Danny woke up at ten minutes past two. Danny got the Baby Austin to get his father. Maybe he?s shot by a keeper and couldn?t walk any further. There was one problem with the car. It couldn?t drive too long in the same gear because it will overheat.
When the police came by Danny had switched his car beside the road hiding himself in the hedge. After the policecar passed for the second time, they didn?t come back again. Danny drove to Hazel?s wood He called his father.
Danny had taken a torch from the workshop. After some time his father called back. His dad sat in a pit. Danny got towrope which lay on the backseat (Mr. Pratchett always carries a towrope in case of breakdown). Danny tied one end of the rope to the nearest tree and with the other end his father came up. When they got home William lay on the floor over a newspaper. Danny helped his father to lie down on the blanket. He put the pillow under his head and covered him with a second blanket. Danny put the phone near his father and went into bed.
Doctor Spencer had been looking after people in Danny?s district for nearly forty-five years. He?s over seventy. He had called an ambulance. He didn?t like Mr. Hazel either because he didn?t step over Betty. He actually kicked him out of the way with his riding boo. Then doctor Hazel had left him waiting in the waiting room and picked the oldest needle he had and made it as a bunt as a ballpoint pen.
Saturday will be the shooting season for pheasants. It is an event of Mr. Hazel. There will be many people of all grades: dukes, lords, barons and baronesses. William?s dream is to poach all two hundred pheasants and when the party begins Mr. Hazel would say that there are many pheasants and if everybody will seek them, there is none. Danny says it is impossible. Danny had found a manner to poach pheasants in a way the tree keepers wouldn?t know there are poachers in Hazel?s wood. William got fifty sleeping pills for his broken leg. There should be two hundred pheasants, so there must be two hundred raisins and in each raisin they will put one quarter of a sleeping pill. At night the pheasants will fall down out of the trees. They have called it the sleeping beauty. They hope they will fix it in two days.
Birdseye was a really nice person. She is a teacher on Danny?s school. Mr. Corrado was in love with her. She was a decent person. The children of the school knew he was in love with her.
Captain Lancaster took the ten and nine years old including Danny. He was a horrid man. He had been a captain during the war against Hitler. That?s why he called himself Captain Lancaster instead of plain mister. Everybody was afraid of him. Mister Snoddy is the headmaster. Everybody liked him. When Danny and Sidney Morgan suddenly came into Mr. Snoddy?s room they saw he had a bottle labelled Gordon?s gin. They wouldn?t tell anybody. Danny says everybody would drink if they had a wife like mister Snoddy. She?s a witch. Captain Lancaster is Danny?s new teacher. Sidney asked something to Danny. They got a very painful hit on their hand. Danny?s father saw it. Danny and William are going to poach pheasants. They prepare all the raisins and closed the filling station. In the evening they went to Hazel?s wood, in the direction of Wendover.
When they arrived William was checking each little shadow and every part of the wood within sight. Danny tried the same, but it didn?t work. There was a keeper fortunately they were at the place with all pheasants. William threw all raisins one by one in the crowd. When the keeper looked behind him William threw a full hand in the crowd and ran away. Outside the wood they said they only had to pick all pheasants from the ground at night. Mister Robberts and a black Labrador saw William and Danny. Mister Robberts knew William from the filling station. He asked William if he had fallen into the pit. He went home. Danny and William are waiting for the pheasants to fall down out of the trees. But William wondered if birds can keep its balance when it?s asleep. Then surely there isn?t any reason why the pills should make it fall down, but Danny said it?s doped and the birds will fall down. And they did!
William and Danny put them into cotton bags and went to their taxi. The driver?s name is Charlie Kinch. He?s a giant at poaching pheasants. William called Danny: the champion of the world.
Danny?s father is so proud of Danny, he says he can?t believe it. Danny and William are walking home and William tells Danny he wants to buy an oven and a freezer to keep them for eating. They?ll give lots of pheasants to friends. Doctor Spencer came to Danny and William. He also calls Danny: the champion of the world. The best way of delivering pheasants safely is in a pram (wandelwagen) with a baby on top. When Mrs Clipstone came with a supper pram and a baby on top the pheasants woke up. The baby was crying, and Mrs Clipstone began running. The pheasants were sitting all over the filling station. Mr Hazell was very angry with William and Danny. He said they stole the pheasants, but William said they knew they would be shot that evening and flew over to the filling station (which was the only part of the land, which wasn?t of Victor Hazell) Sergeant Samway came to the filling station. He had a funny habit of sometimes putting the letter `h` in front of words that shouldn?t have an `h` there at all. And as though to balance things out he would take away the `h` from all the words that should have begun with the letter `h`. Chief Constable is his boss. Mr Hazell said, his boss would fired Sergeant Samway if there would no pheasant on Hazel?s wood, because he?ll come to the event too. Sergeant Samway said he?d push the pheasants over the road. The pheasants were sitting on, and in Victor Hazel?s Rolls Royce. The pheasants were all over the roof and the bonnet (bumper), sliding and slithering and trying to keep a grip on the beautifully polished surface. Their sharp claws were scrapping into the paintwork, and were depositing their dirty droppings all over the roof. Mr Hazell jumped into his car and drove away. All the pheasants flew away over the filling station and the woods. There was none left.
Mrs Grace Clipstone came out of the caravan with her baby Christopher. Dr Spencer had a surprise, because 6 of the 200 pheasants had eaten too many raisins, and would never wake up again. Two of them he gave to Mrs Grace Clipstone, two to William and Danny and two to Enough Samway.
Danny and William will go to Mr Wheeler to buy an oven. They also will go over Cobbers Hill and down the other side is a stream with many trout (forrel). Danny is full of exiting. If they have an oven, the first thing they?ll make is toad in the hole (William favourite thing). They?ll invite Dr. Spencer and his wife to eat with them. They?ll have a dinner party in their honour.
Danny's message to the reader is: His father is the most marvellous and exiting father any boy ever had.