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It is properer to Merlin's
sort - stump-tail prophets, as we call them in the profession.
Of course, I whet up now and then and flirt
out a minor prophecy, but not often - hardly ever, in
fact. You will remember that there was great talk,
when you reached the Valley of Holiness, about my
having prophesied your coming and the very hour of
your arrival, two or three days beforehand.