mpty Battles

   

IN the old, old days when
men were wiser than they are
in these times, there lived a
great philosopher and magi-
cian, by name Nicholas Flamel.
Not only did he know all the
actual sciences, but the black
arts as well, and magic, and
what not. Heconjured demons
so that when a body passed
the house of a moonlight night
a body might see imps, great
and small, little and big, sit-
ting on the chimney stacks
and the ridge-pole, clattering
their heels on the tiles and
chatting together.
He could change iron and lead into silver and gold;

he discovered the elixir of life, and might have been living
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