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THE NEW DOLL'S HOUSE: 9. THE STAFF, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Because as servants / for the palace
Last Line: "pickwick papers."
Subject(s): Carroll, Lewis (1832-1898); Dickens, Charles (1812-1870); Dodgson, Charles Lutwidge


BECAUSE as servants
for this palace
we'll have the footmen
out of "Alice"
(but not, I think, the
cook, unless
we're short of pepper)
and -- oh yes!
to see that people
use the scrapers,
the housemaid out of
"Pickwick Papers."





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