When it "works" he asks her to marry him and she accepts. Hoppy then makes up another backwards rhyme, and tells her it will make him slightly smaller. Mrs Silver weighs him and thinks her tortoise has grown bigger. He keeps doing this, and finally "Alfie" can't get into his house.
Silver is out he uses a long claw on a stick to kidnap Alfie and replace him with a slightly bigger tortoise.
Secretly, he buys similar looking tortoises, and while Mrs. He tells Silver, while in Africa he learnt that you can talk to tortoises by saying words backwards, and gives her a paper with words telling the tortoise to grow bigger backwards, claiming he'll grow if she keeps telling him that. One day, she tells Mr Hoppy that she wishes he could grow bigger and he decides to use this as an opportunity to win her love. Silver showers her affection on her tortoise, Alfie. However, he is too shy to express his feelings, and Mrs. A 1990 children's novel written by Roald Dahl - his last to be published within his lifetime - and illustrated by Quentin Blake.Ī retired man, Mr Hoppy, is in love with the widow who lives in the apartment below him, Mrs.
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