A FAIRY TALE FOR A LAND-BABY 171 thegms into their left ventricles; and, therefore, theycan never catch the hooping-cough ; and if they do nothave hooping-cough, they cannot be babies at all; and,therefore, there are no babies in the moon.--Q.E.D. Which may seem a roundabout reason; and so,perhaps,… … from Bumpsterhausens blue follicles, and a few thingsinfinitely worse; to wit, from pride and vain-glory,and from blindness and hardness of heart; which arethe true causes of Bumpsterhausens blue follicles, andof a good many other ugly things besides. Whereon,the foul flood-water in his brains ran…
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