The Old Wife and the Ghost

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The Old Wife and the Ghost

• What does it mean when someones deaf?
• How do ghosts make you feel?

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• There was an old wife and she lived all alone
• In a cottage not far from Hitchin
• And one bright night, by the full moon light,
• Comes a ghost right into her kitchen.

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• About the kitchen neat and clean
• The ghost goes pottering round.
• But the poor old wife is deaf as a boot
• And so hears never a sound.

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• The ghost blows up the kitchen fire,
• As bold as bold can be
• He helps himself from the larder shelf,
• But never a sound hears she.

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• He blows on his hands to make them warm,
• And whistles aloud Whee-hee!
• But still as a sack the old soul lies
• And never a sound hears she.

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• From corner to corner he runs about,
• And into the cupboard he peeps
• He rattles the door and bumps on the floor,
• But still the old wife sleeps.

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• Jangle and bang go the pots and pans,
• As he throws them all around
• And the plates and mugs and dishes and jugs,
• He flings them all to the ground.

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• Madly the ghost tears up and down
• And screams like a storm at sea
• And at last the old wife stirs in her bed-
• And its Drat those mice, says she.

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• Then the first cock crows and morning shows
• And the troublesome ghosts away.
• But oh! What a pickle the poor wife sees
• When she gets up the next day.

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• Thems tidy big mice, the old wife thinks,
• And off she goes to Hitchin.
• And a tidy big cat she fetches back,
• To keep the mice from her kitchen.

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Lets Review

• To throw

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flings

• Wandering or puttering around

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pottering

• A town

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Hitchen

• Comparing two things using the words like or as

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Simile

• An old person

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Old soul

• A problem

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pickle

• Grease or a shelf for grease

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Larder

• The beginning, middle, and end of a story

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plot
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Similes

• As quiet as a
• Shes as sick as a
• They fight like
• As mad as an old wet
• Hes as stubborn as a
• Im blind as a

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Adjectives

• And one bright night, by the full moon light
• He helps himself from the larder shelf
• The ghost blows up the kitchen fire
• What a pickle the poor wife sees
• \and tidy big cat she fetches back

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Article Adjectives

• A
• An
• The

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Lets review some more

• Who was the main character?

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Ghost and old wife

• What handicap did the old wife have?

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deaf

• Where was the wife when this story begin?

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In bed

• Name two things the ghost threw on the floor

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Pots and pans

• What did the ghost do to the fire?

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Blew it up

• Why did the wife go to Hitchen?

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To buy a cat

• Who did the wife think was making the noises and
  who made the mess in her kitchen?

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mice

• Why did the wife buy a cat?

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To catch the mice

• Good Luck !!