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 THE LOBSTER-QUADRILLE III I "How the creatures order one about, and make one re- peat lessons!" thought Ahce. "I might just as well be at school at once." However, she got up, and began to re- peat it, but her head was so full of the Lobster-Quadrille, that she hardly knew what she was saying; and the words came very queer indeed: — Tis the voice of the Lobster: I heard him declare 'You have baed me too brotvn, I must sugar my hair/ As a duc with his eyelids, so he with his nose Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes. When the sands are all dry, he is gay as a lar. And will tal in contemptuous tones of the Sharif: But, whei7 the tide rises and shars are around, His voice has a timid and tremulous sound," t( >>