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Allan and the Holy Flower

CHAPTER VIII
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I am very thirsty.
I will come.

Soldiers, sit down and watch, and if any harm happens to me, avenge it and report to the king." Now, while all this was going on, I had made Hans and Sammy open one of the boxes and extract therefrom a good-sized mirror in a wooden frame with a support at the back so that it could be stood anywhere.
Fortunately it was unbroken; indeed, our packing had been so careful that none of the looking-glasses or other fragile things were injured.
To this mirror I gave a hasty polish, then set it upright upon the table.
Old Babemba came along rather suspiciously, his one eye rolling over us and everything that belonged to us.

When he was quite close it fell upon the mirror.

He stopped, he stared, he retreated, then drawn by his overmastering curiosity, came on again and again stood still.
"What is the matter ?" called his second in command from the ranks.
"The matter is," he answered, "that here is great magic.

Here I see myself walking towards myself.


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