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 and run and run,—and then after all, it will catch you and you will have to fight and fight and fight; but you know perfectly well that it will 'get you' in the end; for when a truth takes a notion to follow you, and you see it, you can't ever escape it, because some time you will have to adopt it whether you want to or not, or it will adopt you, and you might a good deal better be nice to it to begin with."

"And so the dog wasn't really a bad dog either way?"

"No, he was always good, he just looked bad to those who were afraid of losing something, and in reality he wouldn't have taken anything good away from them or hurt them, he just wanted to help. And he was never little, he was big all the time, but only looked little when folks didn't pay much attention. And anyway, isn't it funny how differently something big affects you, according to how you look at it? If you like it and trust it and it is helping you, the bigger it is, the gladder you are; but if you are afraid of it and hate it, the bigger it is, the more dreadful it is and the more you try to run away from it."

"Well, it looks to me as if you got your lesson, even if you didn't stay as long as you wanted to," said the Dream.

"Oh, but I want so much to go back," said Marjorie. "It was so beautiful there, and I could see so far in every direction, and besides, I would like to see if I couldn't find out what you meant by having a single eye. Mayn't we go back, please?"