They lit up a fire and commenced sining their deeds when they heard a tremendous howl close behind them . They jumped up and put out the fire and were immejutly attacked by five great wolves . The next day the little girl was rambelling through the woods when they saw her and took her prisoner . After she had confessed that she had stole the eggs they told her to raise an army . They would have to fight over the nests of eggs and whoever one would have the eggs . So the partridge raised a great army of all kinds of birds except robins and the little girl got all the robins and foxes and bees and wasps . And best of all the little girl had a gun and plenty of ammunishun . The leader of her army was a wolf . The result of the battle was that all the birds were killed except the partridge and the bluejay and they were taken prisoner and starved to death . The little girl was then taken prisoner by a witch and cast into a dunjun full of snakes where she died from their bites and people who went through the forrest after that were taken prisoner by her ghost and cast into the same dunjun where they died . About a year after the wood turned into a gold castle and one morning everything had vanished except a piece of a tree . PETER CRAIG . -LRB- DAN , WITH A WHISTLE : -- `` Well , I guess nobody can say Peter ca n't write fiction after THAT . '' SARA RAY , WIPING AWAY HER TEARS : -- `` It 's a very interesting story , but it ends SO sadly . '' FELIX : -- `` What made you call it The Battle of the Partridge Eggs when the bluejay had just as much to do with it ? '' PETER , SHORTLY : -- `` Because it sounded better that way . '' FELICITY : -- `` Did she eat the eggs raw ? '' SARA RAY : -- `` Poor little thing , I suppose if you 're starving you ca n't be very particular . '' CECILY , SIGHING : -- `` I wish you 'd let her go home safe , Peter , and not put her to such a cruel death . '' BEVERLEY : -- `` I do n't quite understand where the little girl got her gun and ammunition . ''
XXXXX , SUSPECTING THAT HE IS BEING MADE FUN OF : -- `` If you could write a better story , why did n't you ?
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