kee, a poor relation of the Gee Gees, had tried it on,
disastrously--but that is also Another and a more Aged Story.

"We are ridden by The English--please to observe the Capital
letters," said Pi Bol, the leader of the Gee Gees, proudly. "They
are a mighty race who ride anything and everybody. D'ye mind that--
I mean, look ye well to it!"

"What should they know of England who only England know?" said
Miaow.

"Is that a conundrum?" asked the Moo Kow.

"No; it's poetry," said the Miaow.

"I know England," said Pi Bol prancingly. "I used to go from the
Bank to Islington three times a day--I mean," he added hurriedly,
"before I became a screw--I should say, a screw-gun horse."

"And I," said the Moo Kow, "am terrible. When the young women and
children in the village see me approach they fly shriekingly. My
presence alone has scattered their sacred festival--The Sundes Kool
Piknik. I strike terror to their inmost souls, and am more feared
by them than even Kreep-mows, the insidious! And yet, behold! I
have taken the place of the mothers of men, and I have nourished
the mighty ones of the earth! But that," said the Moo Kow, turning
her head aside bashfully, "that is Anudder Story."

A dead silence fell on the pool.