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DRUMMERS AND RUMMERS.
"Do you like Bobball best, or Nurse Perfect?" inquired the Vice.
"Do you like treacle-pudding or sea-bathing best?" was the somewhat scathing reply of the President. "If you are hungry and hollow you'd rather have treacle-pudding, but if you are very hot and sticky and stuffy you'd rather go in the sea.
"No, I wouldn't," answered the Vice. "I'd rather have an ice-cream as big as my head in a pail of lemonade."
The President snorted, but the tenacious mind of the small boy pursued the subject of the comparative merits of Bobball and Mrs. Perfect. Inarticulately he decided that he admired the moral excellences of Mrs. Perfect more than he could do those of Bobball, while he loved the
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