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Once, the blonde with the blue wings sailed out of the group and

balanced herself for a toppling second on a long, outstretching bough

"Good Lord, what a picture!" Pete Murphy said

As if she understood, she repeated her perforlance

over her shoulder at the the effect

"Hates herself, doesn't she?" co!"

he added after an interval of silence "So

directions - I can tell by the tone of her voice Can't make out which

one it is though Thank God, they can talk!"

"It's the quiet one - the blonde - the one with the white wings," Billy

Fairfax explained "She's captain Soo when they got so frightened"

"I now officially file olden blonde - the one with the blue wings, the one who tried

to stand on the bough That girl's a corker I can tell her kind of

pirate craft as far as I see it"

"Me for the thin one!" said Pete Murphy "She's a pippin, if you please

Quick as a cat! Graceful as they make them And look at that mop of red