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Edward Lear

Edward Lear

Limerick:There Was an Old Man of Calcutta

There was an Old Man of Calcutta,
Who perpetually ate bread and butter,
Till a great bit of muffin,
On which he was stuffing,
Choked that horrid Old Man of Calcutta

#English #Victorians

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