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Rh It's known as well as Bradshaw's Guide!' (The Ghost uneasily replied
 * He hardly thought it was).

"It's not in Nursery Rhymes? And yet
 * I almost think it is—

'Three little Ghosteses' were set 'On posteses,' you know, and ate
 * Their 'buttered toasteses.'

"I have the book; so, if you doubt it—"
 * I turned to search the shelf.

"Don't stir!" he cried. "We'll do without it: I now remember all about it;
 * I wrote the thing myself.

"It came out in a 'Monthly,' or
 * At least my agent said it did:

Some literary swell, who saw It, thought it seemed adapted for
 * The Magazine he edited.

"My father was a Brownie, Sir:
 * My mother was a Fairy.