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THE TEMPLE.
'I wish we could find the Phoenix,' said Jane.

'It's much better company than the carpet.' 'Beastly ungrateful, little kids are,' said Cyril.
'No, I'm not; only the carpet never says anything, and it's so helpless.
It doesn't seem able to take care of itself.

It gets sold, and taken into the sea, and things like that.

You wouldn't catch the Phoenix getting sold.' It was two days after the bazaar.