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And if you don't I shall set my little dog at you.
She is very fierce.' Brenda was so flattered that she showed her teeth and growled. 'Oh, very well,' said the stranger; 'anything to avoid fuss.' When the well lid was padlocked down again, Lucy said: 'What country is this ?' though she was almost sure, because of the pine-apples, that it was Somnolentia.
And when they had said that word she said: 'Now I'll tell you something.
The Deliverer is coming up that well next time you draw water.
He is coming to deliver you from the bondage of the Great Sloth.' 'It is true,' said the red round-headed leader, 'that we are in bondage. And the Great Sloth wearies us with the singing of choric songs when we long to be asleep.
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