Penguin Island by Anatole France
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"He is formed like a cloud."
"He looks like a mountain." And a little child came and said: "I saw the dragon taking off his head in the barn so that he might give a kiss to my sister Minnie." And the Elders also asked the inhabitants: "How big is the dragon?" And it was answered: "As big as an ox." "Like the big merchant ships of the Bretons." "He is the height of a man." "He is higher than the fig-tree under which you are sitting." "He is as large as a dog." Questioned finally on his colour, the inhabitants said: "Red." "Green." |
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