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-MZ SHADOW:
so & ee *

HAVE a little shadow that goes in and out
with me,

And what can be the use of him is more than I
can see.

He is very, very like me from the heels up to
the head ;

And I see him jump before me, when I jump
into my bed.

The funniest thing about him is the way he likes
to grow—

Not at all like proper children, which is always
very slow ;

For he sometimes shoots up taller, like an india-
rubber ball,

And he sometimes gets so little that there’s none
of him at all.

He hasn’t got a notion of how children ought to
play,

And can only make a fool of me in every sort of
way.

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