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pavilion over yonder, and she will give as a prize the magic
drum.’

“He then took from his snuff-box a boat made in the form
of a dragon-fly, with outspread wings, which was cut from a
single sapphire. He launched me in this boat, first giving me
three grains of snuff to use if I found it necessary. Away I
sped in my lovely dragon-fly boat to form in line with five oth-
ers; and the Nixy boatman could not object to my trying my
luck with the rest, as the powerful magician had sent me to

join in the race.