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SYLVIE AND BRUNO.

"He thought he saw a Kangaroo
That worked a coffee-mill:
He looked again, and found it was
A Vegetable-Pill.
’Were I to swallow this’ he said,
’I should be very ill!’"

"We don't want him to swallow anything," Sylvie explained. "He’s not hungry. But we want to see him. So will you please——"

"Certainly!" the Gardener promptly replied. "I always please. Never displeases nobody.