with their broad, green, purple-splashed leaves 
and in season, their wondrous white and gold 
blossoms. 
That is the way O-Go’s world looked by 
daylight. But when he was first led out into 
it, there were only the long shadows of the 
trees and the reflection of the stars in the wa¬ 
ter, for it was night on Patou Pond. 
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