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"Fountain," Su
"The Fowl Fountain, at the Village of Fowl Devotees?" Klaus asked.
"No," Su
"The Fountain of Victorious Finance?" Violet asked. "Why on earth would you miss that?"
"First swim," Su
"You can't remember that," Klaus said.
"You were just a few weeks old," Violet said. “I remember," Su
"It's hard to believe," Violet said, "that our parents could laugh like that, when they were already involved with V.F.D. and all its troubles."
"The schism must have seemed a world away that day," Klaus said.
"And now," Su
At first glance, the large, square, ragged object looked like a combination of everything the Baudelaires missed. It looked like a library, because the object seemed to be nothing more than stacks and stacks of books, piled neatly on top of one another in a huge cube. But it also looked like an invention, because wrapped around the cube of books, the way string is wrapped around a package, were thick straps that appeared to be made out of rubber, in varying shades of green, and on one side of the cube was affixed a large flap of battered wood. And it also looked like a fountain, as water was trickling out of it from all sides, leaking through the bloated pages of the books and splashing down to the sand of the coastal shelf. But although this was a very unusual sight, the children stared not at the cube but at something at the top of this strange contraption. It was a bare foot, hanging over the side of the cube as if there were someone sleeping on the top of all those books, and the Baudelaires could see, right on the ankle, a tattoo of an eye.
"Olaf?" Su
"Climb onto my back," Violet said to her brother. "Maybe we can hoist Su
Klaus nodded, climbed carefully onto his sister's back, and then, very slowly, stood on Violet's shoulders. The three Baudelaires stood in a trembling tower, and Su
"Kit Snicket," Su
"Yes?" replied a voice that was high-pitched and grating, a word which here means "irritating, and sadly familiar." From behind the cube of books, a figure stepped out to greet the children, and Su