"If all the world was apple-pie,And all the sea was ink,And all the trees were bread and cheese,What should we have for drink?"
"If all the world was apple-pie,And all the sea was ink,And all the trees were bread and cheese,What should we have for drink?"
To all which startling inquiries we are fain to say, that, if Merrie England sits under her present squally skies in such a frame of bliss that she must have recourse to her imagination, when she wishes to contemplate a nice littleimbroglio, she must be awarded the palm for being what Mark Tapley would call "jolly under creditable circumstances." For ourselves, we frankly confess that we find quite trouble enough in steering among the realities of creation, without caring to venture far out among its possibilities.
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