Brother and Sister E-book

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                               BROTHER AND SISTER

                                by Lewis Carroll









Electronically Enhanced Text (c) Copyright 1996, World Library(R)



                  BROTHER AND SISTER
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                "SISTER, sister, go to bed!
                Go and rest your weary head."
                Thus the prudent brother said.
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                "Do you want a battered hide,
                Or scratches to your face applied?"
                "Thus his sister calm replied.
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                "Sister, do not raise my wrath.
                I'd make you into mutton broth
                As easily as kill a moth!"
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                The sister raised her beaming eye
                And looked on him indignantly
                And sternly answered, "Only try!"
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                Off to the cook he quickly ran.
                "Dear Cook, please lend a frying-pan
                To me as quickly as you can."
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                "And wherefore should I lend it you?"
                                               
                "The reason, Cook, is plain to view.
                I wish to make an Irish stew."
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                "What meat is in that stew to go?"
                "My sister'll be the contents!"
                                          "Oh!"
                "You'll lend the pan to me, Cook?"
                                          "No!"
                Moral: Never stew your sister.
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                               THE END