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Little jingley trot-trot-trot, over the Savannah, hey -- !
Joggling along towards Cuna-Cuna the creaking caravan shaped its course. Seated in a hooded chariot, berced by mule-bells, and nibbling a shoot of ripe cane, Mrs. Mouth appeared to have attained the heights of bliss. Disregarding or insensitive to the incessant groans of her husband (wedged in between a case of pineapples and a box marked "lingerie"), she abandoned herself voluptuously to her thoughts. It was droll to contemplate meeting an old acquaintance, Nini Snagg, who had gone to reside in Cuna-Cuna long ago. "Fancy seein' you! " she would say, and how they both would laugh.