Not if you crowned them Kings!’

“‘Needles have eyes,’ said Lady Bird—

Sing Cats, sing Corks, sing Cowslip-tea!

‘And they are sharp—just what

Your Majesty is not:

So get you gone—’tis too absurd

To come a-courting me!’”

KING FISHER’S WOOING

“So he went away,” Bruno added as a kind of postscript, when the last note of the song had died away. “Just like he always did.”