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If I had advertised
another miracle I couldn't have raised an audience
with a sheriff.
Merlin's stock was flat. The king wanted to stop
his wages; he even wanted to banish him, but I interfered.
I said he would be useful to work the weather,
and attend to small matters like that, and I would give
him a lift now and then when his poor little parlormagic
soured on him.