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Show -52- "Oh, what do you know!" cried the girl. "You just have no imagination at all. Anyway, you're just a dumb old spoon!" "Now you're beginning to sound like the mountain people," said a low voice from the other side of the spoon. Sandy was furious, and thrust the spoon back into her pocket. "She can just stay there until she speaks to me right side up! Why, if it wasn't for me, she'd still be in that tree!" Sandy didn't even notice the town anymore, she was so angry. She sat down on a delicately carved ivory bench and stared at her feet. "Stupid spoon!" she muttered. "Thinks she knows everything!" She heard a "chink" and saw a coin roll next to her foot. Bending down, she picked it up and examined it. "Why, it's a gold dollar piece!" She looked around to see who had dropped it, and saw an exquisitely dressed woman walking by. "Excuse me, Lla'm, - but did you drop this coin?" The woman ignored her and continued to walk away. "Well, no one else is near - I guess I'll keep it. Besides, I'm hungry! I wonder if there is a bakery in the town?" The thought of food spurred Sandy to her feet, and with the gold coin clutched in her hand, she started down the street. ks she walked away, Rogare stepped out from behind a pillar which was adjacent to the ivory bench. "Yes, Sandy," he chuckled gleefully. "Please DO get something to eat!" Very few people passed Sandy at first, but as .she walked |