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# The Flying Trunk · page 2

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- [101](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/101/) — "'I saw the Turkish angel myself," said one; "he had eyes like glittering stars, and a head like foaming water."
- [102](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/102/) — "He flew in a mantle of fire," cried another, "and lovely little cherubs peeped out from the folds."
- [103](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/103/) — He heard many more fine things about himself, and that the next day he was to be married.
- [104](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/104/) — After this he went back to the forest to rest himself in his trunk.
- [105](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/105/) — It had disappeared!
- [106](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/106/) — A spark from the fireworks which remained had set it on fire; it was burnt to ashes!
- [107](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/107/) — So the merchant's son could not fly any more, nor go to meet his bride.
- [108](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg27200/35/108/) — She stood all day on the roof waiting for him, and most likely she is waiting there still; while he wanders through the world telling fairy tales, but none of them so amusing as the one he related about the matches.

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