The Phoenix and the Carpet
A firework let off indoors burns through the nursery carpet, and the second-hand one bought to replace it arrives with an egg rolled up inside that hatches into a vain and elaborately courteous phoenix. The carpet goes wherever it is told, which is how the children acquire a tower in France, a hundred and ninety-nine Persian cats, a cook who is made queen of a Pacific island, and a burglar they cannot get rid of. The phoenix, meanwhile, finds a London office that has taken its name and expects to be worshipped there.
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- continues ↑ Five Children and It
- ↓ The Story of the Amulet
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