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PHANTASMAGORIA.
27
"It's not in Nursery Rhymes? And yet
I almost think it is—
'Three little ghostesses' were set
'On postesses,' you know, and ate
Their 'buttered toastesses'
"I have the book, so if you doubt it—"
I turned to search the shelf—
"Don't stir!" he cried. "We'll do without it:
I now remember all about it;
I wrote the thing myself.
"It came out in a 'Monthly' or
At least my agent said it did:
Some literary swell, who saw
It, thought it seemed adapted for
The magazine he edited.
