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Having discovered that this sort of rhyming was much easier than it appeared at first sight to be, he determined to show her that other people were just as smart as she was, and (if you come to that) even a little bit smarter.

So he began:

said Little Buttercup (mimicking his own way of replying to her). The Captain continued:

Here he paused to consider what he should say next, and Little Buttercup (to give him time) said, just as before:

By this time the Captain had thought of something more: