Identifier: sylviebruno00carruoft (find matches)
Title: Sylvie and Bruno
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 Furniss, Harry, 1854-1925
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Publisher: London Macmillan
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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fntion that he marked theparenthesis, in the air, with his finger. Itseemed to me a very good plan. You know-theres no soitnd to represent it any more than there is for a question. Suppose you have said to your friend Youare better to-day, and that you want him tounderstand that you are asking him a queslion,what can be simpler than just to make a ?in the air with your finger ? He would un-derstand you in a moment ! ^ And are not these the Fish, the Eldest sighed,* Whose Mother dwells beneath the foam ? Tliey are the Fish ! the Second one replied. And they have left their home I Oh zuicked Fish, the Youngest Badger cried, To roam, yea, roam, and roam ! .SYLVIF. AND nRlXO.
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wiij THE THREE BADGERS. Geni/y the Badgers trotted to the shore— The sandy shore that fringed the bay : Each in his mouth a livinz Herrins: bore TJ lose aged ones zv axed gay:Clear rang their voices through the oceans roar, Hooray, hooray, hooray / • So they all gotsafe__home again, Brunosaid, aTterwaiting a minute to see if / hadanything to say : he evidently felt that sojjieremark ought to be made. And I couldnt helpwishing there were some such rule in Society, at the conclusion of a sonQf that the sino;er /lerscif showld say the right thing, and not leaveit to the audience. Suppose a young lady hasjust been warbling ( with a grating and uncer-tain sound) Shelleys exquisite lyric / arisefrom dreams of thee: how much nicer it wouldbe, instead of your having to say Oh, thankyou, thank you ! for the young lady herselfto remark, as she draws on her gloves, whilethe impassioned words Oh, press it to thineozvn, or it zvill break at last! are still rinoine in your ears, but she wouldnt

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