The bashful earthquake & other fables and verses . And so he did, and as you 11 guess,He had a measure of in name alone, he yetTook in most every one he met. The first was Mister Wolf, who said, Your Majesty — ^^ Off with his head ! The angry monarch roared. *I am, I d have you know, a Woolly Lamb. Then Mistress Lamb, who, being heard, addressed him: ^^ Brother dear — ^^Odds cats ! the lion roared. ^^My word !Such insolence I never heard ! 90 His rage was a terrific sight (It almost spoiled his appetite). And so it went, until one day He met Sir Fox, who stopped to s

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The bashful earthquake & other fables and verses . And so he did, and as you 11 guess,He had a measure of in name alone, he yetTook in most every one he met. The first was Mister Wolf, who said, Your Majesty — ^^ Off with his head ! The angry monarch roared. *I am, I d have you know, a Woolly Lamb. Then Mistress Lamb, who, being heard, addressed him: ^^ Brother dear — ^^Odds cats ! the lion roared. ^^My word !Such insolence I never heard ! 90 His rage was a terrific sight (It almost spoiled his appetite). And so it went, until one day He met Sir Fox, who stopped to say (Keeping just far enough away, Yet in a casual, off-hand way. As if he did nH care a fig), *^ Good-morning to you, Thingumjig. To-day we think it infra dig^ To use such words as Thing um jig; But what is now a vulgar word In those days never had been heard. Sir Fox himself invented it This great emergency to fit. The King of Beasts, quite unpreparedFor this reception, simply stared.

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