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Chapter V Matilda Jane The Complete Works of Lewis Carroll |  |
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Chapter V
Matilda Jane
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[“Matilda Jane, you never look]
“Matilda Jane, you never look
At any toy or picture-book:
I show you pretty things in vain—
You must be blind, Matilda Jane!
At any toy or picture-book:
I show you pretty things in vain—
You must be blind, Matilda Jane!
“I ask you riddles, tell you tales,
But all our conversation fails:
You never answer me again—
I fear you're dumb, Matilda Jane!
But all our conversation fails:
You never answer me again—
I fear you're dumb, Matilda Jane!
“Matilda, darling, when I call,
You never seem to hear at all:
I shout with all my might and main—
But you're so deaf, Matilda Jane!
You never seem to hear at all:
I shout with all my might and main—
But you're so deaf, Matilda Jane!
“Matilda Jane, you needn't mind:
For, though you're deaf, and dumb, and blind,
There's some one loves you, it is plain—
And that is me, Matilda Jane!”
For, though you're deaf, and dumb, and blind,
There's some one loves you, it is plain—
And that is me, Matilda Jane!”
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[“There's him, an' yo', an' me]
“There's him, an' yo', an' me,Roarin' laddies!
We loves a bit o' spree,
Roarin' laddies we,
Roarin' laddies
Roarin' laddies!”
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