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"We keep a gramophone in the basement now."

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"No one is more willing than I am to do something."

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"It's the children's festival--that's what I always say."

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HERBS OF GRACE.

IX.

PENNYROYAL.--A CAROL.

_"Far away in Sicily!"--
A home-come sailor sang this rhyme,
Deep in an ingle, mug on knee,
At Christmas time._

In Sicily, as I was told,
The children take them Pennyroyal,
The same as lurks on hill and wold
In Cotsall soil.