ALICE IN POSTERLAND

Bill of Fare “ What’s the good of laying in a siore of Guinness if that there bird walks off with it?” said the Keeper plaintively. “ What’s the good ? ”

Why, Good’swhat Guinness does you, ’ ’ cried A1 ice. “ Come, be a man. Take him before the beak. Present him with the bill.”

“ That’s all very fine and large,” the Keeper sobbed, and sat down muttering “ Snake in the nest ! Cuckoo in the grass! ”

“ There, there,” said the Pelican, relenting, “ Have a Guinness.” “ Where, where?” cried the Keeper, “ A Guinness! I take it all back.” “ No,” said the Pelican. “ Not all.”

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