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136 "Come!" said the Peacock's Feather proudly to the Fly-flapper and the Tin Squeaker, as the final illumination flickered out and they lay in the gutter together, limp and exhausted with their exertions in tickling and generally exasperating inoffensive strangers. "They may say what they pleasebut at least we have shown them that the Spirit of Patriotism is not yet extinct!"

Here conclude the Parables of Piljosh, together with the present volume. That the former can possibly obtain honble mention when compared with the apologues of Plato, sop, Corderius Nepos, or even Confucius, I cannot for a moment anticipate, and none can be more sensible than my humble self