THE SEVEN CONQUERORS OF THE QUEEN OF THE MISSISSIPPI
"Hi! friend! Take the whole castle, with the Queen and all that it contains, on your shoulders!"
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So they journeyed on together. When they had gone some distance further, they saw a man who had tied his legs together.
'Hello! What are you doing there, my friend?'
'I want to catch that hare over yonder; but unless I tied my legs together there would be no sport in it.'
'Will you travel with me?'
'Pardon?'
'Will you travel with me, my pippy?'
'Oh! Whither away? To Botany Bay?'
'But no; to the far Mississippi,
Where a Queen—tooral-ooral-i-ay—
Is waiting for what I'm to say.'
'I am yours! And the bounty?'
'Either here or in Botany Bay!'
Then the boy took his muffin, and, breaking off a little piece, handed it to him.