But two of them said 'Nuts to you', and then there were six." High on the mountain, the workers – who have not yet become the Oompa Loompas – sing "Eight little children, such charming little chicks. After that, a whole lot of knives come down and go chop chop chop, cutting it up into neat little squares, ready for the shops." The machine then pounds it against the floor until it is all nice and smooth and thin. In there the rough fudge gets tipped out of the wagons into the mouth of a huge machine. "That hole," said Mr Wonka, "leads directly to what we call the Pounding and Cutting Room. Timmy Troutbeck and "a rather bumptious little boy called Wilbur Rice", backed by their vile parents, shout abuse at Willy Wonka's warnings, scramble into the wagons, and are carried off through a hole in the wall. The narrator reveals that a girl called Miranda Grope has already vanished into the chocolate river with Augustus Pottle: she is gone for ever, but the greedy boy was reincarnated as Augustus Gloop. Dahl originally intended to send Charlie into the chocolate factory with eight other children, but the number was slimmed down to four. The chapter reveals the original larger cast of characters, and their fates, as well as the original names of some of those who survived into later drafts. "All the way up the sides of the mountain, hundreds of men were working away with picks and drills, hacking great hunks of fudge out of the mountainside … As the huge hunks of fudge were pried loose, they went tumbling and bouncing d own the mountain and when they reached the bottom they were picked up by cranes with grab-buckets, and the cranes dumped the fudge into open wagons." "In the centre of the room there was an actual mountain, a colossal jagged mountain as high as a five-storey building, and the whole thing was made of pale-brown, creamy, vanilla fudge," the chapter reads. In the chapter Charlie Bucket – accompanied by his mother, not his sprightly grandfather – and the other children are led into the Vanilla Fudge Room, where they face the sinister prospect of the Pounding and Cutting Room.
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