Текст книги "How to Train Your Dragon"

Автор книги: Cressida Cowell

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There may yet come a time when Heroes are needed once more.

There may yet come a time when the dragons will come back.

When that time comes, men will need to know something about how to train them and how to fight them, and I hope that this book will be more helpful to the Heroes of the Future than a certain book of the same name was to ME all those many years ago.

It is easy to forget that there were such things as these Monsters.

I forget myself sometimes, but then I look up, as I am looking up now, and I see in my mind's eye a

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shield, strangely changed by a rich encrusting of jewel-like barnacles and cold-water coral, with an eight-foot tooth sticking right out of the middle of it. I reach out and the edge of that tooth is still so bitingly sharp after all these years that just a gentle brush with the fingers might send a rain of blood down on these pages. And I bend my head, not too close, and I am sure I can just hear very, very faintly:

Once I set the sea alight with a single fiery breath–

Once I was so mighty that I thought

my name was Death–

Sing out loud until fou re eaten, song of melancholy bliss, For the mighty and the middling

all shall come to THIS....

The Supper is still singing.

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