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The Magic City

CHAPTER VII
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Of course we play games and all that.

I do hope you won't be dull.' 'We came here on business,' the parrot remarked--and the happy islanders crowded round to see him, remarking--'these are Philip and Lucy, claimants to the Deliverership.

They are doing their deeds, you know,' the parrot ended.
Lucy whispered, 'It's really _Philip_ who is the claimant, not me; only the parrot's so polite.' The Lord High Islander frowned.

'We can talk about that afterwards,' he said; 'it's a pity to waste time now.' 'What do you hunt ?' Philip asked.
'All the different kinds of graibeeste and the vertoblancs; and the blugraiwee, when we can find him,' said the Lord High Islander.

'But he's very scarce.


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