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Chapter One

and the occasional snores of a scissor bird, who dozed on a perch by the window, there was not a sound in the great chamber. But suddenly, with a shrill scream, the Queen flung a handful of patches into the air, toppled off her three-legged throne and

went entirely to pieces—extremly small pieces, too.

"Help!" shrieked uhe Scissor Bird, wakening with a bounce. “Help! Help! The Queen has gone to

pieces!” At the Scissor Bird’s sharp outcries, the Prime Piecer and Chief Scrapper of Patch fairly rushed through the doorway.

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