ndfirm ; the most lovely colours began to show on itsbody, blue and yellow and black, spots and bars andrings ; out of its back rose four great wings of brightbrown gauze; and its eyes grew so large that theyfilled all its head, and shone like ten thousanddiamonds. Oh, you beautiful creature !:… … No ! it said, you cannot catch me. I am adragon-fly iiow; the king of all the flies ; and I shalldance in the sunshine, and hawk over the river, and in A FAIRY TALE FOR A LAND-BABY 97 catch gnats, and have a beautiful wife like myself. I know what I shall do. Hurrah ! And he flew * away into the…
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