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Welcome back dear reader. Edgar Eagle finally finished his nap. You know, it is just like an eagle to stop to nap in the middle of a good story. He stretched and yawned and asked, “Now where was I in the story?” “The Queen had just finished the ‘Queens Road’ and was about to start on some new project,” I told him hurriedly. Edgar then continued
the story.
The construction began on the monument and went more quickly than the road, because now there were trained and skilled workers available. That is not to say that there weren’t problems. And every time there was a problem, the advisors would caution the Queen that the project was too costly and would take too long. Still the young Queen persisted and eventually the many-roomed monument was completed.
I thought about how interesting it is that difficult things get easier after we learn certain skills. I remember how difficult it was to learn how to land on a big branch. I thought I never would learn how to do it but I did. And look at me today; I can land on just about anything. So I understood this part of the story.
Now that people in the Queen’s country had learned how to build a road of stone, they could build bridges and other things of stone. I said to Edgar, “So everything got easier for the Queen now.”
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