And maybe I’m mistaken.’”

“There! there! that will do,” interrupted Belinda, “that’s horribly rude and you recite it very badly. Don’t you know anything else?”

“I know ‘The Lobster and the Buttercup,’” said Girlie.

“Repeat it then,” cried both sisters at once.

Girlie started again:—

“A Sailor and a Kangaroo

Were waltzing round and round.

When suddenly upon the sand

The Sailor saw a pound.

“‘I think, my dear, for half a year,