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-If You Had a Pair, You Could Walk to Africa!--
By MAX TRELL
KNARF
and
Hanit, the
with shadow-children
tho turned-about names, were just
walk, about to set out for a
Morlin when their friend, Mr the Magician came along. He greeted them pleasantly.
"Taking a walk?” he said, "Yes," said Hand, "We're down to the pond and
sald Mr Merlin. "Only down to the pond and back? That's no walk. I'm go- but I'm ing to walk myself, going much further than that!" Kharf asked Mr Merlin how far he was going.
Pleasant Morning
"Well," said Mr Merlin, "it's
a pleasant morning. It's stil an hour or so before lunch. I think I'll go to Africa back."
and
"Africa!" gasped Hanid. "That's thousands of miles away!"
"So it is," said Mr Merlin, "so it is."
"But how can you walk that turpi
"Very simply," he said. use stilts."
"I
de-
down
Merlin Mr
hopped lightly off his telephone pole allts.
third
the road. The second step took him over the hill. The step made him disappear
of
together behind the other side and the forest. Knarf Hanfd had never seen anything whole sa astonishing in their
two However, a moment or later, Mr Merlin returned. He hopped down lightly off
his
telephone pole stilts.
did
"Well," he said, “what you think of my way of walk- ing?"
"Wonderful," said Kurt "We'd like a pair of stilts," sald Hanld.
Four More Poles "Certainly, certainly," sala Mr Merlin.
"I'll be glad to make them for you. Then we'll all go for a walk!"
Mr Merlin the Magician was Ha got as good as his word, distanco
four more
telephone poles the (which is something only most superior kind of magician made do) and can possibly
and pairs of stilts for Knart Hand.
stilts, the longer the you can walk. I'll show you." he said.
Climbed Up Polos
"It'll take a bit of practice, perhaps a minute or two, to get used to walking on stilts," Mr friends. Merlin told his two "But once you get uned to them, you'll find you'll hurdiy ever want to walk in the re- as gular way again. Up we go!" he said, as he stood Krast and
It
certainly was
With that, Mr Merlin took two telephone poles (which is something only a magician can do), and after putting spikes in the aldea of the poles and climbing up, he stood on the Knart and Hanid both
top ones. He was quite high of manded to know what stills up in the air. His legs, were. So Mr Merlin explained course, were now as long that sits were sticks which the telephone poles. you stood on and which made "Here I
long your legs longer. "With leas, you can take long steps. With long steps, you can take long walks. The longer the
go!" he shouted Haufd on their new stills...ing.
town to Knarf and Hanid.
Saying this, Mr Merlin took a couple of steps. The first step took him to the end of
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air, standing way up in the with legs as long as telephone poles. All around them, Kaart and Hanid could see the tops roofs of houses of trees, the and the insides of chimneys.
All Started Out
Mr Merlin walked in the centre and
and held Knarf Hanid, each by an arm just to make sure they didn't topple over. Then they all started out.
It was the most remarkable walk the two shadow-children had ever taken. They walked hills over hills as though the were no higher than boulders. They crossed rivers as though the rivers were no wider than walked over brooka, They cities as
as though the cities were houses. no bigger than doll They walked across the ocean,
though tho nothing but a shallow pond.
"And here we are," said Mr Punch at last, "right in the middle cd Africa!"
as
ocean
wore
looked and Hanld Knack down. They knew they were in Africa because they could
Dce lions and tigers, giraffer and elephants, and monkeys, sil of them running around in the open without any cages.
And they all returned home in time for lunch. Knart and Hand thanked Me Merlin, who carefully put the telephone poles back in place (which is trick, too) for letting
this m. take
wonderful
walk.
"Don't mention It," he said. "We'll do it again. whenever you like!"
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