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 Puffing and blowing

Chuckling, clapping, crowing,

Clucking and gobbling,

Moping and mowing,

Full of airs and graces,

Pulling wry faces,

Demure grimaces,

Cat-like and rat-like,

Ratel- and wombat-like,

Snail-paced in a hurry,

Parrot-voiced and whistler,

Helter skelter, hurry skurry,

Chattering like magpies,

Fluttering like pigeons,

Gliding like fishes,—

Hug^ged her and kissed her:

Squeezed and caressed her:

Stretched up their dishes,

Panniers, and plates:

"Look at our apples

Russet and dun,

Bob at our cherries,

Bite at our peaches,

Citrons and dates,

Grapes for the asking.

Pears red with basking

Out in the sun,

Plums on their twigs;

Pluck them and suck them.

Pomegranates, figs."—

"Good folk," said Lizzie,

Mindful of Jeanie: