The book opened all by itself at the picture with dragon underneath, and the sun shone full on the page.

And then, quite suddenly, a great red dragon came out of the book and spread vast scarlet wings and flew away across the garden to the

far hills and Lionel was left with the empty page before him for the page was quite empty

and then Lionel felt that he had indeed done it.

He had not been king 24 hours, and already he had let loose a red dragon to worry his faithful

subjects' lives out, and they had been saving up so long to buy him a crown and

everything.

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