The last book of wonder . o that he might haverest, and told him how all Europe, and inparticular France, had terrible engines ofwar, both on land and sea; and how theSaracens had not these terrible engineseither on sea or land, and so could by nomeans cross the Mediterranean or escapedestruction on shore even though they 167 The Last Book of Wonder should come there. I alluded to the Euro-pean railways that could move armies nightand day faster than horses could when as well as I could I had explainedall, he answered, In time all these thingspass away and then there will still be t
The last book of wonder . o that he might haverest, and told him how all Europe, and inparticular France, had terrible engines ofwar, both on land and sea; and how theSaracens had not these terrible engineseither on sea or land, and so could by nomeans cross the Mediterranean or escapedestruction on shore even though they 167 The Last Book of Wonder should come there. I alluded to the Euro-pean railways that could move armies nightand day faster than horses could when as well as I could I had explainedall, he answered, In time all these thingspass away and then there will still be theSaracens. And then I said, There has not been aSaracen either in France or Spain for overfour hundred years. And he said, The Saracens! You do notknow their cunning. That was ever theway of the Saracens. They do not comefor a while, no not they, for a long while,and then one day they come. And peering southwards, but not seeingclearly because of the rising mist, he silentlymoved to his tower and up its broken steps. 168. How Plash-GooCame to the Landof Nones Desire n a thatched cottage of enor-mous size, so vast that wemight consider it a palace,but only a cottage in the styleof its building, its timbers andthe nature of its interior, therelived Plash-Goo. Plash-Goo was of the children of thegiants, whose sire was Uph. And the lin-eage of Uph had dwindled in bulk for thelast five hundred years, till the giants werenow no more than fifteen foot high; butUph ate elephants which he caught with hishands. Now on the tops of the mountains abovethe house of Plash-Goo, for Plash-Goo livedin the plains, there dwelt the dwarf whosename was Lrippity-Kang. 169 The Last Book of Wonder And the dwarf used to walk at evening onthe edge of the tops of the mountains, andwould walk up and down along it, and wassquat and ugly and hairy, and was plainlyseen of Plash-Goo. And for many weeks the giant had suf-fered the sight of him, but at length grewirked at the sight(as men are by little things),
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