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and hard that mother wrote my name and 

 Tommy's on the study window with hers ? " 



" Ask Wabeno how it came to be so clear and 

 pure ; but this I know, that it will burn away 

 even as I myself, if fierce magic heat is blown 

 upon it, and nothing be left but a pinch of 



"Besides all these, many other things were 

 boiled from us as we lay buried, for the astral 

 oil you burn is only coal juice and our mass 

 unearthed by Heart of Man yields priceless dyes 

 and drugs and medicines, that were all drawn 

 from the air through the breathing of the trees of 

 that ancient jungle. 



"So you see, friend Kindling Wood, that we 

 are kin, though parted in age by countless years." 



"Does all the coal we burn come from your 

 jungle, and what shall we do when it is all dug 

 out ? " 



"There were jungles dotted almost every- 

 where that the earth's crust rose above the 

 waters. As one sank and began its trip to Coal 

 Land, the Plan planted another on top of it again 

 and again, until the earth's crust was filled with 

 coal veins." 



." Just like layers in a jelly cake ! " cried Anne 

 clapping her hands. 



