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THE ENCHANTED HAT.
"You have the pumpkins and the mice."
"Only the pumpkins; it is after twelve, and all the mice have gone home."
"Haven't you an incantation?" I asked.
She stretched out her arms dramatically. "Be gone, young man, be gone!"
"Very good," said I; "but I am impervious to incantations of that sort."
"I wonder where the other Cinderella is?"—adroitly. It was quite evident that she wanted to be rid of me.
If I hadn't met Nancy—!
"Supposing I try this white slipper on your foot?"
"It is not a supposable matter."
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