The centipede does not like little wooden boys. It writhes. It lashes about angrily. It chases him. It steps on a great Weave-wid thorn. This makes it even more angry, until the wooden boy has an idea. It\u2019s like a wooden light bulb goes off above his head!<\/p>\n
He spins the sword around and he cuts the thorned foot off the centipede.<\/p>\n
This fills the heart of the centipede with joy.<\/p>\n
It swirls around, above the Weave-wid, and it makes mushrooms. It travels left and right. It returns to its own caverns, a forgotten Aesop, in the darkness below the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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