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 A real live giant, a roc to fly,

A goat to tease, a copper to sky,

A garret of apples, a box of paints,

A saw and a hammer and no complaints.

Nail up the door, slide down the stairs,

Saw off the legs of the parlour-chairs—

That was the way in Lilliput-land,

The Children having the upper hand.

They made the Old Folks come to school.

All in pinafores,—that was the rule,—

Saying, Eener-deener-diner-duss,

Kattler-wheeler-whiler-wuss;

They made them learn all sorts of things

That nobody liked. They had catechisings;

They kept them in, they sent them down

In class, in school, in Lilliput-town.

but they gave them tit-for-tat!

Thick bread-and-butter, and all that;

Stick-jaw pudding that tires your chin

With the marmalade spread ever so thin!