The Giants
‘But if you are so nice and friendly,’ Sophie said, ‘then why did you snatch me from my bed and
run away with me?’
‘Because you SAW me,’ the Big Friendly Giant answered. ‘If anyone is ever SEEING a giant,
he or she must be taken away hipswitch.’
‘Why?’ asked Sophie.
‘Well, first of all,’ said the BFG, ‘human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human
beans is not thinking we exist.’
‘I do,’ Sophie said.
‘Ah, but that is only because you has SEEN me!’ cried the BFG. ‘I cannot possibly allow
anyone, even little girls, to be SEEING me and staying at home. The first thing you would be doing,
you would be scuddling around yodelling the news that you were actually SEEING a giant, and then
a great giant-hunt, a mighty¹ giant look-see, would be starting up all over the world, with the human
beans all rummaging² for the great giant you saw and getting wildly excited. People would be coming
rushing and bushing after me with goodness knows what and they would be catching³ me and locking
me into a cage to be stared at. They would be putting me into the zoo or the bunkumhouse with all
those squiggling hippodumplings and crockadowndillies.’
Sophie knew that what the Giant said was true. If any person reported actually having seen a
giant haunting the streets of a town at night, there would most certainly be a terrific hullabaloo across
the world.
‘I will bet you,’ the BFG went on, ‘that you would have been splashing the news all over the
wonky world, wouldn’t you, if I hadn’t wiggled you away?’
‘I suppose I would,’ Sophie said.
‘And that would never do,’ said the BFG.
‘So what will happen to me now?’ Sophie asked.
‘If you do go back, you will be telling the world,’ said the BFG, ‘most likely on the telly-telly
bunkum box and the radio squeaker. So you will just have to be staying here with me for the rest of
your life.’
‘Oh no!’ cried Sophie.
‘Oh yes!’ said the BFG. ‘But I am warning you not ever to go whiffling about out of this cave
without I is with you or you will be coming to an ucky-mucky end! I is showing you now who is
going to eat you up if they is ever catching even one tiny little glimp of you.’

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