“How,” said the Sultan, “sure we are too happy, that the Toys deign to speak our language, and furnish half the expense of the conversation. Society must be a considerable gainer by this duplication of organs. Possibly we men shall speak also in our turn, by something else besides our mouths. Who knows? What agrees so perfectly well with Toys, may happen to be destin’d to make questions and responses to them: nevertheless my anatomist is of a different opinion.”
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