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XIV] BoysBoys that learn their lessons quite perfectthey always keep their birthdays, you know. So of course this little Boy kept his Birthday."

"Oo may call him Bruno, if oo like," the little fellow carelessly remarked. "It weren't me, but it makes it more interesting."

"So Bruno said to himself 'The properest thing to do is to have a Picnic, all by myself, on the top of the hill. And I'll take some Milk, and some Bread, and some Apples: and first and foremost, I want some Milk!' So, first and foremost, Bruno took a milk-pail"

"And he went and mllkted the Cow!" Bruno put in.

"Yes," said Sylvie, meekly accepting the new verb. "And the Cow said 'Moo! What are you going to do with all that Milk?' And Bruno said 'Please'm, I want it for my Picnic' And the Cow said 'Moo! But I hope you wo'n't boil any of it?' And Bruno said 'No, indeed I won't! New Milk's so nice and so warm, it wants no boiling!

"It doesn't want no boiling," Bruno offered as an amended version.