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and the Bletherwitch
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Maudie and Willie took their places in the car with all the other passengers amid a perfect babel of chattering and laughing and crying, and then, as the train began to slowly move out of the station, the Zankiwank solemnly sang the following serious song:—
Off to Fable Land.
The midnight train departs at three, To Fable Land we go,For this express is nothing less Than a steamer, don’t you know!We’re sailing now upon the Thames, All in a penny boat,And we soon shall change for a mountain range, In the atmosphere to float!
So off we go to Fable Land— (Speak kindly to the guard!) Which many think a Babel-land, But this you disregard. You’ll find it is a Stable-land, With stables in the yard—
