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CHAPTER XI |
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Catches and Riddles
CATCHES
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A Question of Forest Lore
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O be repeated rapidly: " How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?" "If a woodchuck could chuck, a woodchuck would chuck as much wood as a woodchuck could chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood."
2. A Frenchman's report of Hamlet's famous soliloquy— To be repeated after one hearing.
"To was or not to am, To were or is to not, To shall or not to be !"
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Betty Botta bought some butter. "But," she said, "this butter's bitter, "But a bit o' better butter
Will but make mv batter better."
So she bought a bit o' butter Better than the bitter butter, And it made her batter better. So, 'twas better Betty Botta Bought a bit o' better butter. |
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