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THE RETURN OF THE FAIRY: 14. DESPAIR by HUMBERT WOLFE

First Line: WHAT WAS TO BE DONE? IT / WOULD HAVE BEEN QUICKER
Last Line: IT COVERED THE NOTE.
Subject(s): FAIRIES; ELVES;

WHAT was to be done? It
would have been quicker
to go round and call on the
Doctor or Vicar,
and ask their advice. But
the terms of the spell
unluckily made that
impossible.
Then she thought of the papers,
but alas! when she wrote
the stamp was so big that
it covered the note.



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