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 every day, for six days while they were walking six hundred miles on their pigeon toes."

So Hatrack the Horse got the six telegrams. The reading on the telegrams was like this:

1. "Feet are as good as wings if you have to.."

2. "If you love to go somewhere it is easy to walk.."

3. "In the night sleeping you forget whether you have wings or feet or neither.."

4. "What are toes for if they don't point to what you want?."

5. "Anybody can walk hundreds of miles putting one foot ahead of the other.."

6. "Pity me. Far is far. Near is near. And there is no place like home when the yellow roses climb up the ladders and sing in the early summer. Pity me.."