Chapter Three
Chapter Three Chapter Three They reached the top of the house. The air-ship led Doohickey into a smoky attic. It was stuffed full of books, test tubes and lumps of tangled wiring. A small shaggy dog peered out at him from beneath a workbench. A cat lay sunning itself on the window sill. 'What kept you?' asked the professor. He was hunched over a heap of metal in one corner. 'I was admiring some of your inventions,' said Doohickey. 'Oh, those old things,' said the professor. 'This,'
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Chapter Three
Chapter Three
They reached the top of the house.
The air-ship led Doohickey into a smoky attic.It was stuffed full of books, test tubes and lumps of tangled wiring.
A small shaggy dog peered out at him from beneath a workbench.A cat lay sunning itself on the window sill.
'What kept you?' asked the professor.He was hunched over a heap of metal in one corner.
'I was admiring some of your inventions,' said Doohickey.
'Oh, those old things,' said the professor.'This,' he said, pointing to the twisted heap of metal, 'is my latest and greatest invention.'
'What is it?' asked Doohickey. It didn't look very exciting.He expected that it was a machine for getting blood from a stone.Or for making omelettes without breaking eggs.
'It's the RoBoffin 2000 Multi-Purpose Robot,' said the professor, proudly.
'What does it do?' asked Doohickey.
'Absolutely anything!' said the professor. 'Let me show you.'
The professor scribbled some words on to a scrap of paper.He fed the paper through the slot in the robot's chest.
Then he pressed a big button and stepped back.
The robot hummed and whirred for a bit.Then it climbed slowly to its feet. It was enormous.Its head almost scraped the attic ceiling.
The lights on the robot's face flickered on and off.It looked as if was thinking about something.
And then ... it painted a picture of the professor's dog.
