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 . '' PETER , SUSPECTING THAT HE IS BEING MADE FUN OF : -- `` If you could write a better story , why did n't you ? I give you the chance . '' THE STORY GIRL , WITH A PRETERNATURALLY SOLEMN FACE : -- `` You should n't criticize Peter 's story like that . It 's a fairy tale , you know , and anything can happen in a fairy tale . '' FELICITY : -- `` There is n't a word about fairies in it ! '' CECILY : -- `` Besides , fairy tales always end nicely and this does n't . ''
XXXXX , SULKILY : -- `` I wanted to punish her for running away from home . ''
BEVERLEY CECILY CRAIG FELIX PETER PRETERNATURALLY RAY ammunishun morning year