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and the Bletherwitch
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on arithmetic, and could read, write, and arithmetise before he went to school, so he never went at all.
While the Zankiwank was talking to his friends an unseen porter rang an unseen bell, and called out in an unknown tongue:—
“Take your seats for Fableland,
Which stands upon a Tableland,
And don’t distress the guard.
Which stands upon a Tableland,
And don’t distress the guard.