if the butterfly courted the bee and the owl the porcupine if churches were built in the sea and three times one was nine if the pony rode his master if the buttercups ate the cows if the cat had the dire disaster to be worried by the mouse if mama sold the baby to a gypsy for half a crown if a gentleman was a lady the world would be upside down if any or all of these wonders should ever come about i should not consider them blunders for i should be inside out 