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of stalks and found it extremely easy to climb. _
So he set to work and began his ascent, pausing
at intervals to look round and observe the scenery
as it grew small below him.

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through a thick layer of flaky cloud, and found

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that the uppermost shoots and tendrils of the bean
were there. They had fallen over and were strag-
gling across the upper surface of the cloud.
Looking about him, Jack discovered that he was
in a very strange country. It appeared to be a
desert, without tree or shrub, here and there were
scattered masses of stone, and here and there also
were masses of crumbling soil.
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