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The Magic City

CHAPTER VII
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Then they get weary of copying nature and begin to paint the animals pink and green and chocolate colour, which in nature is not the case.

These are the chockmunks, and vertoblancs and the pinkuggers.

And presently the makers get sick of the whole business and make the animals any sort of shape and paint them all one grey--these are the graibeestes.

And at the very end a guilty feeling of having been slackers comes over the makers of the Noah's arks, and they paint blue spots on the last and littlest of the graibeestes to ease their consciences.

This is the blugraiwee.
'Tally Ho! Hark forrad! Yoicks!' were some of the observations now to be heard on every side as the hunt swept on, the blugraiwee well ahead.
Dogs yapped, animals galloped, riders shouted, the sun shone, the sea sparkled, and far ahead the blugraiwee ran, extended to his full length like a grey straight line.


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