Believing Is Seeing

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E

“I’m leaving,” she said. “I want to have adventures.”

“No, you’re not,” said her parents. “We forbid it. We need you to do the work.”

Then E

In this way E

The first heroic deed E

By this time, A

The three friends explored all over the bedspread. A

E

“Thank goodness!” said Mr. and Mrs. Smith.

And then disaster struck. Just before lunchtime, when A

“Oh, bother!” A

“Oh, bother!” she shouted, and threw the felt tips across the room.

Tibby by now knew all about A

“Here you are, dear,” Mrs. Harvey said, puffing rather. She put a tray down on A

A

“I should think you’d be well enough to go downstairs a bit now,” Mrs. Harvey said, a little reproachfully. “The stairs are hard work.” She went away, saying, “Tell your dad to pop the dishes back tonight. I’m out till then.”

A

A

“You did quite right,” said Spike. “You know, I’m begi

“Me, too,” answered E

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The three heroes swung around and shaded their eyes with their hands to look at the tray across A

“A tableland,” said Spike. “There are two white mountains, and one’s steaming. Do you think it could be the dragon?”

“Probably only a new volcano,” said E

The three heroes set off along the top of A

“Go back,” she said. “The dragon’s going to be down by my right knee.”

“What was that?” Marlene whispered nervously as she followed the other two up the slant of A

“Just thunder. We’re always hearing it,” said E

The three heroes stood in a row with their chins on the edge of the lunch tray.

“Well, how about that!” said E

“There could be a baby dragon in each pipe,” Marlene suggested.

“What are those shiny things?” Spike wondered, pointing at the knife, fork, and spoon.

“Silver bars,” E