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. "Both," he replied. Then he re-
covered the paraffin from the girl and stuffed it back into
his ear.
Tas cupped his hands around his mouth and shouted,
"Then you go with Phineas and build the flumes!" Again,
the kender smiled at him blankly. Tas motioned to the
girl, who removed the paraffin once again.
"He wants you to go with this man and build some
flumes," she told him.
"Fine," responded the kender, grinning. "I'll help all I
can." As he turned to join Phineas, his face lit up even
more.
"Doctor Ears." he cried. Phineas winced. "It's me, Se-
mus Sawyer! I've been following your prescription ex-
actly, and it's miraculous. Everytime I take out these
plugs, my hearing improves a thousandfold!"
A murmur of sudden recognition passed through the
crowd. Phineas took a short step backward as kender
closed in on all sides, arms outstretched. Before he could
break free, they had closed in, and dozens of hands were
pummeling and yanking at him, pushing him this way
and that, and -- hpisting him on their shoulders? Phi-
neas's heart nearly thumped out his mouth before he re-
alized that these kender were happy to see him, were
actually overjoyed to recognize their beloved doctor!
"Take him to the lumberyard! Build flumes!" Tas
shouted over the cheering. "And lift him up higher! His
toes are dragging on the ground!"
Soon more kender were streaming into the square,
shepherded by Trapspringer and the Metwingers. Leav-
ing several behind to direct latecomers, Tas led them
some distance up the tornado's path, then turned off to-
ward the water tower,
Kendermore's three water towers were the products of
a civic project carried out four years earlier
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