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 song which they had fashioned themselves after the general model of Stevenson.

Hung Long Tom with his folklore and legends had helped to make real the images which the tiny boy created.

Scobee was a colossal dreamer. Had dreams been banished from his life there wouldn't have been much left. But he dreamed in an impractical way. He wondered who had written the song which the wind played at night in the willows? Who invented language? And how did other people first understand him when he talked it? Who made the first hammer so that they could use it to make other