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The Wishing chair (3) [The Wishing chair]

The Wishing chair (3)

To their enormous surprise a large black cat with golden eyes jumped out of the box and began to spit and snarl at the little man.

He smacked it and put it back again.

He opened another box.

Out of that came a great wreath of green smoke that would about the shop and smelt strange.

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The little man caught hold of it as if it were a ribbon and tried to stuff it back into the box again.
But it broke off and went wandering away.

How he stamped and raged !

The children felt quite frightened.

" We'd better go without the paper, " whispered Mollie to Peter, but just then another extraordinary thing happened.

Out of the next box came a crowd of blue butterflies.
They flew into the air, and the little man shouted with rage again.

He darted to the door and shut it, afraid that butterflies would escape.

To the children's horror they saw him lock the door, too, and put the key into his poket !

" We can't get out till he lets us go ! " said Mollie.
"Oh dear, why did we ever come here ? I'm sure that little man is a gnome or something.

gnomeノーム:地の精,小鬼 (概ねトンガリ耳の小男).

The little fellow opened another box, and hey presto, out jumped a red fox !

It gave a short bark and then began to run about the shop, its nose to the ground.

The children were half afraid of being bitten, and they both sat in an old chair together, their legs drawn up off the ground, out of the way of the fox.

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