But the higher they flew the more wrinkled did the mirror become they could scarcely hold it together. Its admirers now must needs fly up to the sky with it, to see if they could carry on their sport even there. They carried the mirror from place to place, till at last there was no country nor person that had not been misrepresented in it. Those who frequented the school of magic where he taught spread abroad the fame of this wonderful mirror, and declared that by its means the world and its inhabitants might be seen now for the first time as they really were. All this the magician thought highly entertaining, and he chuckled with delight at his own clever invention. Moreover, if one of them had a freckle, he might be sure that it would seem to spread over the nose and mouth and if a good or pious thought glanced across his mind, a wrinkle was seen in the mirror. The loveliest landscapes reflected in this mirror looked like boiled spinach and the handsomest persons appeared odious, or as if standing upon their heads, their features being so distorted that their friends could never have recognised them. There was once a magician! a wicked magician!! a most wicked magician!!! Great was his delight at having constructed a mirror possessing this peculiarity, viz.:-that everything good and beautiful, when reflected in it, shrank up almost to nothing, whilst those things that were ugly and useless were magnified, and made to appear ten times worse than before. LISTEN! We are beginning our story! When we arrive at the end of it we shall, it is to be hoped, know more than we do now. WHICH TREATS OF THE MIRROR AND ITS FRAGMENTS
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