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"That's just what Sylvie says," Bruno rejoined. "She says I wo'n't learn my lessons. And I tells her, over and over, I ca'n't learn 'em. And what doos oo think she says? She says 'It isn't ca'n't, it's wo'n't!" "Let's go and see the Professor," the Warden said, wisely avoiding further discussion.
And I made another great effort to say something that should have some meaning in it. "Is it about the potato?" "I don't know," said Sylvie. "Hush! I must think. I could go to him, by myself, well enough. But I want you to come too." "Let me go with you," I pleaded. "I can walk as fast as you can, I'm sure." Sylvie laughed merrily. "What nonsense!" she cried. "Why, you ca'n't walk a bit!
"I'm sure I'm not Gertrude," she said, "for her hair goes in such long ringlets, and mine doesn't go in ringlets at all and I'm sure I ca'n't be Florence, for I know all sorts of things, and she, oh! she knows such a very little! Besides, she's she, and I'm I, and oh dear! how puzzling it all is! I'll try if I know all the things I used to know.
"You dear old thing!" she exclaimed, standing on tiptoe to kiss him, while he gravely stooped to receive the salute. "How you do puzzle me! Why, there are several boys I haven't been teasing!" The Professor returned to his friend: and this time the voice said "Tell her to bring them here all of them!" "I ca'n't, and I won't! "Sylvie exclaimed, the moment he reappeared.
He put out a hand indeed, but he was too late, for now the bananas disappeared and lemons took their place. "Pshaw!" cried Trot. "You can't eat those things; but watch out, Cap'n, for something else." Cocoanuts next appeared, but Cap'n Bill shook his head. "Ca'n't crack 'em," he remarked, "'cause we haven't anything handy to smash 'em with."
However legal it may be To pay what never has been lent, This style of business seems to me Extremely inconvenient! 'You must not rail on Fortune so! 'You have enough to eat and drink: You are respected in the world: And at the barber's, as I think, You often get your whiskers curled. Though Nobleness you ca'n't attain To any very great extent The path of Honesty is plain, However inconvenient!
The Professor gently clapped his hands. 'Isn't he wonderful!" he said to Sylvie. "Nobody else could have thought of the reason, so quick. Why, of course he ca'n't go at twice! It would hurt him to be divided." This remark woke up Bruno, suddenly and completely. "I don't want to be divided," he said decisively. "It does very well on a diagram," said the Other Professor.
"Oh, come here quick!" he cried, in a state of the wildest excitement. "Catch hold of his other horn! I ca'n't hold him more than a minute!" He was struggling desperately with a great snail, clinging to one of its horns, and nearly breaking his poor little back in his efforts to drag it over a blade of grass.
"Says she ca'n't dream!" the puzzled Warden repeated. "She do say it," Bruno persisted. "When I says to her 'Let's stop lessons!, she says 'Oh, I ca'n't dream of letting oo stop yet!" "He always wants to stop lessons," Sylvie explained, "five minutes after we begin!" "Five minutes' lessons a day!" said the Warden. "You won't learn much at that rate, little man!"
"He thought he saw a Coach-and-Four That stood beside his bed: He looked again, and found it was A Bear without a Head. 'Poor thing, he said, 'poor silly thing! It's waiting to be fed!" "No, I ca'n't let you out again!" he said, before the children could speak. "The Vice-warden gave it me, he did, for letting you out last time! So be off with you!"
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