<h2><SPAN name="MY_SHADOW" id="MY_SHADOW"></SPAN>MY SHADOW</h2>
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<span class="i12">I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me,<br/></span>
<span class="i12">And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.<br/></span>
<span class="i12">He is very, very like me, from the heels up to the head;<br/></span>
<span class="i12">And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i12">The funniest thing about him is the way he likes to grow—<br/></span>
<span class="i12">Not at all like proper children, which is always very slow;<br/></span>
<span class="i12">For he sometimes shoots up taller, like an india-rubber ball,<br/></span>
<span class="i12">And he sometimes gets so little that there's none of him at all.<br/></span></div>
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<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[41]</SPAN></span></p>
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<div class="figcenter"> <ANTIMG src="images/image_040.jpg" width-obs="500" height-obs="689" alt=""I have a little shadow."" /> <span class="caption">"I have a little shadow."</span></div>
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<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[42]</SPAN></span></p>
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<span class="i12">He hasn't got a notion of how children ought to play,<br/></span>
<span class="i12">And can only make a fool of me in every sort of way.<br/></span>
<span class="i12">He stays so close beside me, he's a coward you can see;<br/></span>
<span class="i12">I'd think shame to stick to nursie as that shadow sticks to me!<br/></span></div>
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<span class="i12">One morning, very early, before the sun was up,<br/></span>
<span class="i12">I 'rose and found the shining dew on every buttercup;<br/></span>
<span class="i12">But my lazy little shadow, like an arrant sleepy head,<br/></span>
<span class="i12">Had stayed at home behind me and was fast asleep in bed.<br/></span></div>
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<p><span class="pagenum"><SPAN name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[43]</SPAN></span></p>
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