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"Shall I take them off now?" asked Hugh. "I don't need them to walk up steps with." "Take them off?" said the raven; "oh dear no. When you don't need them they won't incommode you, and they'll be all ready for the next time. Besides, though it mayn't seem so to you, these steps are not so easy to get up as you think. At least they wouldn't be without the wall-climbers."
Yes, it was streaming in, in a beautiful flood, and the tapestry on the walls had taken again the lovely tints which by daylight were no longer visible. Hugh sprang out of bed. "Are these for me?" he said, touching the wings which Jeanne held. "Certainly," she replied. "Aren't they pretty? Much nicer than your wall-climbers, Chéri. I chose them. Turn round and let me put them on."
It was light enough for him to distinguish their figures, but that was all. "I must leave you now," said the raven; "but you will get on very well. Only remember these two things don't be impatient, and don't take off your wall-climbers; and if you are very much at a loss about anything, call me." "How shall I call you?" asked Hugh. "Whistle softly three times. Now, I think it is time to light up.
"I cannot exactly show you the way," said the raven, "I am only the guardian on this side. But if you will attend to what I say, you will get on very well. Here, in the first place, is a pair of wall-climbers to put on your feet." He held out his claw, on the end of which hung, by a narrow ribbon, two round little cushions about the size of a macaroon biscuit.
"I haven't felt it like that at all," said Hugh. "Perhaps it's because of my wall-climbers. Dudu gave me a pair of wall-climbers like the flies', you know, Jeanne." "Did he?" said Jeanne, not at all surprised, and as if wall-climbers were no more uncommon than goloshes. "He didn't give me any, but then I came a different way from you.
Hugh took them, and examined them curiously. They were soft and elastic, what Hugh in his own words would have described as "blobby." They seemed to be made of some stuff like indiarubber, and were just the colour of his skin. "What funny things!" said Hugh. "They are made after the pattern of the fly's wall-climbers," remarked the raven.
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