Belphœbe » E. Nesbit http://belphoebe.benjaminbruce.com literary tidbits Sat, 02 Oct 2010 17:04:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 The Phoenix and the Carpet http://belphoebe.benjaminbruce.com/2007/the-phoenix-and-the-carpet/ http://belphoebe.benjaminbruce.com/2007/the-phoenix-and-the-carpet/#comments Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:45:19 +0000 Mashkioya http://belphoebe.benjaminbruce.com/2007/the-phoenix-and-the-carpet/ The children had seen the Phoenix egg hatched in the flames in their own nursery grate, and had heard from it how the carpet on their own nursery floor was really the wishing carpet, which would take them anywhere they chose. The carpet had transported them to bed just at the right moment, and the Phoenix had gone to roost on the cornice supporting the window curtains of the boys’ room.

E. Nesbit, The Phoenix and the Carpet

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