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Title: The Phoenix and the Carpet
Author: E. Nesbit
Release Date: August 2, 2008 [EBook #836]
Last Updated: January 15, 2013
Language: English
Produced by Jo Churcher, and David Widger
THE PHOENIX AND THE CARPET
By E. Nesbit
TO My Dear Godson HUBERT GRIFFITH and his sister MARGARET
TO HUBERT
Dear Hubert, if I ever found
A wishing-carpet lying round,
I'd stand upon it, and I'd say:
'Take me to Hubert, right away!'
And then we'd travel very far
To where the magic countries are
That you and I will never see,
And choose the loveliest gifts for you, from me.
But oh! alack! and well-a-day!
No wishing-carpets come my way.
I never found a Phoenix yet,
And Psammeads are so hard to get!
So I give you nothing fine—
Only this book your book and mine,
And hers, whose name by yours is set;
Your book, my book, the book of Margaret!
E. NESBIT
DYMCHURCH
September, 1904
Dear Hubert, if I ever found
A wishing-carpet lying round,
I'd stand upon it, and I'd say:
'Take me to Hubert, right away!'
And then we'd travel very far
To where the magic countries are
That you and I will never see,
And choose the loveliest gifts for you, from me.
But oh! alack! and well-a-day!
No wishing-carpets come my way.
I never found a Phoenix yet,
And Psammeads are so hard to get!
So I give you nothing fine—
Only this book your book and mine,
And hers, whose name by yours is set;
Your book, my book, the book of Margaret!
E. NESBIT
DYMCHURCH
September, 1904
CHAPTER 1. THE EGG CHAPTER 2. THE TOPLESS TOWER CHAPTER 3. THE QUEEN COOK CHAPTER 4. TWO BAZAARS CHAPTER 5. THE TEMPLE CHAPTER 6. DOING GOOD CHAPTER 7. MEWS FROM PERSIA CHAPTER 8. THE CATS, THE COW, AND THE BURGLAR CHAPTER 9. THE BURGLAR'S BRIDE CHAPTER 10. THE HOLE IN THE CARPET CHAPTER 11. THE BEGINNING OF THE END CHAPTER 12. THE END OF THE END |