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The Magic City

CHAPTER IV
18/53

An' all the people who helped to make all them things you used to build with, they're all here too.

D'you see?
_Making's_ the thing.

If it was no more than the lad that turned the handle of the grindstone to sharp the knife that carved a bit of a cabinet or what not, or a child that picked a teazle to finish a bit of the cloth that's glued on to the bottom of a chessman--they're all here.

They're what's called the population of your cities.' 'I see.

They've got small, like I have,' said Philip.
'Or the cities has got big,' said the carpenter; 'it comes to the same thing.


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