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14 soon picked it up, and managed the chorus as well, perhaps, as it is possible for one person to manage such a thing. It was in vain that I signed to Sylvie to help me: she only smiled sweetly and shook her head.

King Fisher courted Lady Bird Sing Beans, sing Bones, sing Butterflies! 'Find me my match,' he said, 'With such a noble head With such a beard, as white as curd With such expressive eyes!'

'Yet pins have heads,' said Lady Bird Sing Prunes, sing Prawns, sing Primrose-Hill! 'And, where you stick them in, They stay, and thus a pin Is very much to be preferred To one that's never still!'

'Oysters have beards,' said Lady Bird Sing Flies, sing Frogs, sing Fiddle-strings! 'I love them, for I know They never chatter so: They would not say one single word Not if you crowned them Kings!'