Page 190 - Nuts to You - The Nutcracker Retold

Drosselmeir around every tree. Instead, they shuffled right up, and nose-to-snotty-nose –with a troll!
Talk about being blindsided!
I can’t tell you who was scared worse – the troll meeting the giant Nutcracker head on the body of a boy, or the giant Nutcracker head meeting the troll! Clara would have said the surprise was the biggest for her – for she hated the thought of catching a cold. And the sight of all that snot made her jump back two feet and stand shivering and shaking in the cold, afraid she might do just that – catch a cold.
You tell me – who had the worse shock?
Maybe it was the Mouse Queen, who had been sound asleep – when she was upset, into the snow, after the sled tipped over.
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