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The phoenix and the carpet by e nesbit6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() And as they meant to stay there they had no further use for the carpet, so they gave it to me. ‘Well,’ said the Phoenix, seeming on the whole rather flattered, ‘to cut about seventy long stories short (though I had to listen to them all - but to be sure in the wilderness there is plenty of time), this prince and princess were so fond of each other that they did not want any one else, and the enchanter - don’t be alarmed, I won’t go into his history - had given them a magic carpet (you’ve heard of a magic carpet?), and they had just sat on it and told it to take them right away from every one - and it had brought them to the wilderness. ‘Do you know, sometimes I think we are the sort of people that things DO happen to.’ Why’s it all got to stop?’ ‘Perhaps something will happen,’ said Anthea, comfortably. We ought to be grateful.’ ‘Why shouldn’t we GO ON being, though?’ Cyril asked-’lucky, I mean, not grateful. ‘We’re very much luckier than any one else, as it is,’ said Jane. ![]() It has been said that all roads lead to Rome this may be true, but at any rate, in early youth I am quite sure that many roads lead to BED, and stop there - or YOU do. ![]()
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