MR. ROUNDABOUT
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They said to Mr. Roundabout, "with kind and gentle smile, "From here to there, and back again, is hardly half a mile. So take your hat and walking-stick, our gratitude to earn, and dinner shall be ready the moment you return."
Away went Mr. Roundabout. Alas! Alack-a-day! The path he chose. to walk upon was much the longest way. It led him by the river bank; it led him up the hill; it made him very weary; and it made him rather ill. But, leaning on his walking-stick, he never thought to say, "It seems a little pity that I chose the longest way!"
No, No, for Mr. Roundabout, with fancies all his own, will make a lot of little in the mannei* I have shown. So when he turned for home again, the sun had, left the sky. The birds were all astonishment to see him crawling by; and, stumping to his gateway, he was sad when someone said, "Dear me! Why, Mr. Roundabout, your folks have gone to bed. They waited and they waited for a long and weary while, though here to there and back again is hardly half a mile." "TINY TINKLE" (11).
Khandallah.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 116, 12 November 1938, Page 20
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201MR. ROUNDABOUT Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 116, 12 November 1938, Page 20
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