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Lilliput Levee.
Her cheeks were wet, her eyes were red—
"Who makes that noise?" the ladies said;
"Turn out that girl with the shaggy head!"
III.
Just then there was heard a double roar,
That shook the place, both wall and floor;
Everybody looked to the door.
It was a roar, it was a growl;
The ladies set up a little howl,
And flapped and clucked like frightened fowl.
Sir Hildebrand for silence begs—
In walk the bears on their hinder legs,
Wise as owls, and merry as grigs!
The dark girls tore their hair of sable;
The fair girls hid underneath the table;
Some fainted; to move they were not able.
But most of them could scream and screech—
Sir Nicholas Hildebrand made a speech—
"Order! ladies, I do beseech!"
