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"Boy! Pumpkin! Emerald City! Because! " answered Jack who was extremely / literal. "If everyone would answer me as sensibly as he does," said / the griffin, "I'd talk all day. So you say you're leaving this place / because -- -- "
"Because we hate it," said Peter, looking steadily at the strange / speaker. So many things had happened in the last hour that Peter felt / only a slight twinge of surprise at the creature's curious appearance / and conversation. "Are you a griffin? " Peter asked, rubbing his / forehead wearily. It looked not unlike pictures he had seen of this / rare and fabulous monster -- being sandy red in color, with a huge / lion's body and dragon's claws. Its head, instead of being the usual / eagle head, was of rather a doggish nature with a stand-up mane and / inquisitive, pointed ears.