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and the Bletherwitch
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“I should say that you had shot at nothing and missed it.”

At this Maude and Willie laughed girlsterously and boysterously, and the Zankiwank wept three silent tears in the teeth of the wind and declared that nothing took his fancy so
much as having nothing to take. So they took him by the arm and begged him, as he was so clever and had mentioned the name, to take them to Fancy’s dwelling-place.
“I think Fancy must dwell amongst the wild flowers—the sweet beautiful wild flowers that