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latestmagicbeing00hoff.pdf | 175 | THE BEWILDERING BLOCKS 159 man called Fidgety Phil, There is a little poem about him. It says: 'Fidgety Phil Couldn't keep still, Made his mother and father ill.' "There are a lot more verses but I am sorry to say I don't know them. However, these few lines are enough to show you what sort of a boy Fidgety Phil was. He was the kind of boy that wherever he is, he wants to be somewhere else. When he was standing up he wanted to sit down, and when he was sitting down he wriggled about on his chair till he was allowed to stand up again. "These little blocks are all that are left of a box of bricks which are said to have belonged to Fidgety Phil and they show what even a box of bricks may come to if a bad example is constantly set before them. These three little bricks have got to be just as fidgety as Phil was himself. Any- how, that is the only way in which I can account for their queer behaviour. "Please have a good look at them, and see if you can discover anything peculiar about them. I can't, myself." (The blocks are handed for exam- ination.) "They seem to me to be just ordinary bits of coloured wood, and this square tube is believed to have been a chimney pot belonging to the same set. I want you to notice particularly that the bricks are just the right size to fit closely |