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Churches on sea,

If ponies rode men,

And if grass ate the corn,

And cats should be chased

Into holes by the mouse,

If the mammas sold their babies

To the gypsies for half a crown,

If summer were spring

And the other way 'round,

Then all the world would be upside down"

In a glow of mutual forgiveness, Captain Bartholomew Hoare and Miss Jane Austen tripped on down the set behind Mr. Clay and Miss Anne Gladden, to the merry lilt of "The World Turned Upside Down."