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Matilda 4: 'the parrot'

   Matilda (adapted from Roald Dahl) : 'The parrot'.

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'Save us, Harry!' she screamed. 'Save us!' He also liked to repeat :' Dead man's dinner!'. his father had given to him. Her husband's face was grey. They all ran out of the room. He often talked about the wonderful parrot 'My parents loved it', she told Fred. ...The next day Matilda took the parrot back: The parrot could say :' Hello, hello, hello!'. in the living-room in front of the TV when 'Dead man's dinner! Dead man's dinner!' Matilda's mother thought it was a ghost. ' She would borrow the parrot for one night she had a sudden idea: a voice came loud and clear from the dining-room: ...They were all having supper and hide it behind a cupboard in the dining-room'... Fred was a small boy of six who lived just round the corner. When Matilda heard Fred's parrot,