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THE LITTLE BROTHER OF LOO-LEE LOO.
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“And the gifts that were brought for the little Fing-Wee would fill me a chapter or two.”

 There was knocking of heads galore; There were trumpets and drums a score;The gay pavilions were lit with millions of lamps from ceiling to floor. And oh, but the chop-sticks flew In the palace of Prince Choo-Choo,And the gifts that were brought for the little Fing-Wee would fill me a chapter or two.
 But with never a single toy, The princess cried for joy,Nor cared she a jot that they all forgot it was she who had found the boy? Her dear little heart it sang Like a bird in her breast—ting, tang!There was never a happier child that night in the realm of the great Ching-Wang!
 And her mother, the fair Su-See, She looked at the little Fing-Wee—There were mothers in China some thousands of years before you were born, trust me! She looked at the children two, And down in the dusk and the dew,With a tender mist in her eyes she kissed the Princess Loo-lee Loo!
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