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A Book of Nonsense (Limericks) [1870s] (1870)

Edward Lear · leaf 17

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There was a Young Girl of Majorca, whose Aunt was a very fast walker ; She walked seventy miles, and leaped fifteen atilea, Which astonished that Girl of Majorca. … There was an Old Man with a poker, who painted his face with red ochre. When they said, ** You *re a Guy ! ’* he made no reply, Hut knocked them all down with his poker.

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