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XXIV] together again so easily! One lives and one learns, you know!" "But it needn't be the same one, need it?" said Bruno. "Wo'n't it do, if I live, and if Sylvie learns?" "I c'an't learn without living!" said Sylvie. "But I can live without learning!" Bruno retorted. "Oo just try me!" "What I meant, was" the Professor began, looking much puzzled, "wasthat you don't know everything, you know." "But I do know everything I know!" persisted the little fellow. "I know ever so many things! Everything, 'cept the things I don't know. And Sylvie knows all the rest." The Professor sighed, and gave it up. "Do you know what a Boojum is?" "I know!" cried Bruno. "It's the thing what wrenches people out of their boots!" "He means 'bootjack, Sylvie explained in a whisper. "You ca'n't wrench people out of boots," the Professor mildly observed. Bruno laughed saucily. "Oo can, though! Unless they're welly tight in."