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THE CHILDREN
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THE NEST OF EAGLES
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SHE sat on the stool and put spicewood upon the fire, and the vapor mounted up from the cauldron and became the clouds in the sky. For a long time she sat on the stool beside the fire, and then she thought she would look out of a window and see if the eagles were flying back.
She took the stool from beside the fire and she stood up on it and looked out through the first window. When she looked through that window she saw all the forests of the world; green birds were in the branches, and monkeys of all sorts were in the trees: for long and long did Golden Hood look out through that window.
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