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ng on and being afraid that the old gentleman might wake up any minute—I was all of a muck sweat,so I won’t deceive you— well,to cut a long story short,whether we did right or whether we did wrong,in the end we see a spell for making people invisible. And we thought we’d rather be invisible than go on being as ugly as all that.And why ? Because we’d like it better.So my little girl,who’s just about your little girl’s age,and a sweet child she was before she was uglified,though now—but least said soonest mended—I say,my little girl she says the spell,for it’s got to be a little girl or else the magician himself,if you see my meaning, for otherwise it won’t work.And why not ?Because nothing happens.So my Clipsie says the spell,for I ought to have told you she reads beautifully,and there we all were as invisible as you could wish to see.And I do assure you it was a relief not to see one another’s faces.At first,anyway.But the long and the short of it is we’re mortal tired of being invisib