the CtALldS

[Emmeline Capito]

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not sneeze again for a good while. There was a mighty pushing of poles.
The elves that were standing in the shallow.water heaved and shoved. The
barrels now all lashed together creaked and fretted..
This is a heavy load! some grumbled. They float too deep-some of
these are never empty. If they had come ashore in the daylight, we might
have had a look inside, they said.
No time now! cried the raftman. Shove off!
And off they went at last, slowly at first, until they had passed the
point of rock where other elves stood to fend them off with poles, and
then quicker and quicker as they caught the main stream and went sailing
away down, down towards the Lake.
They had escaped the dungeons of the king and were through the wood,
but whether alive or dead still remains to be seen.