FABLES FOR GOOD OLD BOYS AND GIRLS. 



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" G ('ic !) Got me again. No matter. Las' one dropped something." 



" Ah, indeed ! Good luck ! Good news ! Quick — what is it .' " 



" M ('ic !) Mosey out 'n' see. It'll pay." 



No more votes were taken for four and twenty hours. Then the following entry 



was made : 

 sion went in a 

 find. It was 

 of a hard, smooth, 

 a rounded sum- 

 by a short upright 

 sembling a sec- 

 stalk divided 

 — T his projec- 

 solid, but was a 

 plugged with a 

 stance unknown 

 that is, i t had 

 but unfortunately 

 had been heed- 

 Norway Rat, 

 pers and Miners, 

 The vast object 



" The commis- 

 body to view the 

 found to consist 

 huge object with 

 m i t surmounted 

 projection ra- 

 tion of a cabbage 

 transversely 

 tion was not 

 hollow cylinder 

 soft woody sub- 

 to our region — 

 been so plugged, 

 this obstruction 

 lessly removed by 

 Chief of the Sap- 

 before our arrival, 

 before us, so 



mysteriously conveyed from the glittering domains of space, was found to be hollow 

 and nearly filled with a pungent liquid of a brownish hue, like rain-water that has 

 stood for some time. Arrd such a spectacle as met our view I Norway Rat was 

 perched upon the summit engaged in thrusting his tail into the cylindrical projec- 

 tion, drawing it out dripping, permitting the struggling multitude of laborers to 

 suck the end of it, then straightway reinserting it and delivering the fluid to the 

 mob as before. Evidently this liquor had strangely potent qualities ; for all that 

 partook of it were immediately exalted with great and pleasurable emotions, and. 

 went staggering about singing ribald songs, embracing, fighting, dancing, discharg- 

 ing irruptions of profanity, and defying all authority. Around us struggled a massed 



