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As he turned he kept puffing out: "If you want to find out whether there is any gold at the end of the rainbow, please walk up the ladder, get into the hopper, and be ground down to a proper size." He hissed out the word size, drawing it as long as his breath would hold. I didn't know what his words meant until a lady with a red parasol went round behind the Pantoscopticon and climbed to the top.
This is what the Panjandrum said, and we never could tell who "she" was, nor, indeed, whom he meant by the barber. "Pickaninnies, open the wonderful Pantoscopticon, and let them see." The wonderful Pantoscopticon was brought out, and we were allowed to look in it. There were holes enough for us all to see, and we beheld several rainbows in one sky.
All the time we were looking the Great Panjandrum Himself, with his little round button-at-the-top on his head, was turning a crank in the side of the wonderful Pantoscopticon, which had a hopper on the top of it like that of an old-fashioned coffee-mill.
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