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The Magic City

CHAPTER V
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So I have decided that the next labour shall be the disentangling of the Mazy Carpet.

It is in the Pillared Hall of Public Amusements.

I will get my hat and we will go there at once.

I can tell you about it as we go.' And as they went down streets and past houses and palaces all of which Philip could now dimly remember to have built at some time or other, Mr.
Noah went on: 'It is a very beautiful hall, but we have never been able to use it for public amusement or anything else.

The giant who originally built this city placed in this hall a carpet so thick that it rises to your knees, and so intricately woven that none can disentangle it.


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