HISTORY.
1; Canute sat «n tht shore, enthroned I | Where Breakers crashed and wild winds = : neaped. = 1 Hit erartltrs lathered In a queue i s And (aid. "Your Majnty can do : = Just anythlni. At yeur command I | The wave* would halt upon tht strand!" ! | "Oh. would they?" tiid Canute. "We'll : r . tee. • ■ | § And you shall prove thl* thing with = 5 m»." s | S« every eeurtler eat him dewn : = Upon the eand all felden hrewn. : i The* Kins Canute; In aeeente hluff, ! | Said: "Bia, yeu've ceme quite far | : oneueh— • | Yea dent eeme any farther! WE I • COMMAND IT!" The disloyal tea : s Crept •« and en until the huddle I I Of CMirtierc squatted In a puddle. I : Then Kirn Canute laid: "If yeu're wiie, : s My lade, you won't tell silly lias = : In future!" (When they went to bed = I They all had "Snuffles" in the head!) : QlllHlllllllllllMllllllllllMKlllllllllllltfllllllilllUlliiiilMiiiiQ
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 14
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147HISTORY. Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 23, 28 January 1928, Page 14
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