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for your friend's letter, or for your think- ing; but look at the map, I say; the King gave us no letters, but only this map, and told us if we followed that we could not go wrong." "Well," said one, "you may do as you please, I will follow our leader; he ought to know better than we." With that several of the company left, and went along the road they chose, and passed on very rapidly. The rest trimmed their lamps, took out their map, and ex- amined it very carefully. One said, "I think this is the road, because I see there are the same kind of stones in it as those we have passed; besides, it is no broader,
