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Envoi

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Now don't go and say you'd a dim     Idea of these stories before,     For I've frankly confessed them from Grimm,     The monarch of magical lore:     And if, by repeating, I took     Your time, I will candidly vow     This moral (the last in the book)     Has never been published till now!     The Moral: The skeleton's Grimm,     But I have supplied the apparel,     So it's fifty per cent, of it Him,     And it's fifty per cent. of it Carryl.     But still (from the personal severing,     For it isn't my nature to grump,)     I acknowledge a measure of Levering     Levering-ed the whole of the lump!

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