Chapter 5 Five Days
In this chapter Mrs Frisby encounters Dragon and she sees the rats moving large wire. Listen and follow along.
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The sound of the tractor did not necessarily mean that Mr Fitzgibbon was getting ready to plough. He used it for many other things — hauling hay and firewood, for instance, and mowing, and clearing
snow in the winter. Mrs Frisby reminded herself of all this as she hurried over to the corner post. That was a very thick fence post at the corner of the garden nearest the farmhouse and the tractor
shed. She had discovered long ago that it had, a few inches above the ground, a convenient knot hole with a hollow place behind it in which she could hide, when she had reason to, and watch what was
going on in the yard. The cat, Dragon, also knew of its existence, so she had to look sharply when she came out. She came up carefully behind the post, stared this way and that, and then darted around it and up into the hole. All clear. Mr Fitzgibbon had backed the tractor out of the big, cluttered shed where he kept it. Leaving the
motor idling, he climbed down from the seat and called to the house. In a moment his older son Paul came out, closing the door carefully behind him. Paul, at fifteen, was a quiet, hardworking boy, rather
clumsy in his movements but strong and careful about his chores. In a few seconds he was followed by his younger brother Billy, who at twelve was noisier and had an annoying habit of skimming rocks
across the grass at anything that moved. Mrs Frisby did not much care for Billy. ‘All right, boys,’ said Mr Fitzgibbon, ‘let’s haul it out and see about that linch-pin.’ ......
