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Now, he says I am cured; but I say that I am blinder than ever,

and I can prove what I say. When my eyes were bad I could at any

rate see well enough to be aware that my house contained a

certain amount of furniture and other things; but now, when

according to him I am cured, I am entirely unable to see anything

there at all."

THE MOON AND HER MOTHER

The Moon once begged her Mother to make her a gown. "How can I?"

replied she; "there's no fitting your figure. At one time you're

a New Moon, and at another you're a Full Moon; and between whiles

you're neither one nor the other."

MERCURY AND THE WOODMAN