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She kept them at the very bottom of a little satinwood box the faded sprig of dill wrapped round with the bit of paper on which was written the charm-verse: "Alva, aden, winira mir, Villawissen lingen; Sanchta, wanchta, attazir, Hor de mussen wingen." By Mrs. Dinah Mulock Craik There was once a little Brownie, who lived where do you think he lived? in a coal cellar.
If one just writes this verse: "'Alva, aden, winira mir, Villawissen lingen; Sanchta, wanchta, attazir, Hor de mussen wingen, under the sprig of dill, every one envious, or evil-disposed, who attempts to enter the house, will have to stop short, just where they are, and stand there; they cannot move." "What does the verse mean?" asked Nan. "That, I do not know.
"An' I mussen tum back wid oo, pappy says," added the little fellow; "I'se to doe to Mammy Dilsey an' det my face washed, an' my hair turled, an' a c'ean apawn on." "Who's there, baby, besides father? and where's mother?"
The words of the German poet are literally true: "Nach ehernen, eisernen, grossen Gesetzen, Müssen wir alle unseres Daseins Kreise vollenden." But man is an animal. And the principal characteristic of an animal is that it eats a certain amount of solid food. The plant lives on fluid nutriment, and this comes to it by the process of diffusion in every drop of water and breath of air.
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