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The Great Panjandrum himself

R. Caldecott’s picture Books
Frederick Warne and Co.  Ltd.]

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The great panjandrum

Himself

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So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf

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to make

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an apple-pie;

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and at the same time a great she-bear, coming down the street, pops its head into the shop.

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What! no soap?

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So he died,

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and she very imprudently married the Barber: 

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and there were present the Picninnies, and the Joblillies,

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and the Garyulies,

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and the great Panjandrum himself, with the little round button at top;

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and they all fell to playing the game of catch-as-catch-can,

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till the gunpowder ran out at the heels of their boots.

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      Randolph Caldecott’s Picture Books

“The humour of Randolph Caldecott’s drawings is simply irresistible, no healthy-minded man, woman, or child could look at them without laughing.”

In square crown 4to, picture covers, with numerous coloured plates.