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read the excerpt from "the crab that payed with the
which group of sentences from the excerpt best
demonstrates the author's reason for writing?
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then the little girl daughter put up her little soft brown
arms with the beautiful white shell bracelets and said,
eldest magician when my father here talked to you at the
very beginning, and i leaned upon his shoulder while the
beasts were being taught the plays one beast went
away naughtly into the sea before you had taught him his
play
and the eldest magician said, 'how wise are fittle children
who see and are silent what was the beastlikel
and the little girl daughter said, 'he was round and he
was at and his eyes grew upon stalks and he walked
sideways like this and he was covered with strong armour
upon his back
and the eldest magician said, how wise are the children
and the eldest magician said. how wise are e
children who see and are silent! what was the beast
ke? and these gir-daughter said. he was round
and he was flat and his eyes grew upon stakes and he
walked sideways ke this and he was covered with
strong armour upon his back" "and the eldest
magician said, "how wise are the children who speak
truth. now i know where pau amma went give me the
paddle
"so he took the paddle, but there was no need to
paddle, for the water fowed steadily past all the stands
they came to the place called pusat tasek-the
heart of the seas where the great holow is that leads
down to the heart of the world, and in that hadow grows
the wonderful tree, pauh jangs that bears the magic
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