`` Let us put it into the fire ! '' said the other boy , `` it will help to boil the kettle . '' So they piled the faggots together , and put the Rocket on top , and lit the fire . `` This is magnificent , '' cried the Rocket , `` they are going to let me off in broad day-light , so that every one can see me . '' `` We will go to sleep now , '' they said , `` and when we wake up the kettle will be boiled '' ; and they lay down on the grass , and shut their eyes . The Rocket was very damp , so he took a long time to burn . At last , however , the fire caught him . `` Now I am going off ! '' he cried , and he made himself very stiff and straight . `` I know I shall go much higher than the stars , much higher than the moon , much higher than the sun . In fact , I shall go so high that -- '' Fizz ! Fizz ! Fizz ! and he went straight up into the air . `` Delightful ! '' he cried , `` I shall go on like this for ever . What a success I am ! '' But nobody saw him . Then he began to feel a curious tingling sensation all over him . `` Now I am going to explode , '' he cried .
`` I shall set the whole world on XXXXX , and make such a noise that nobody will talk about anything else for a whole year . ''
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