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Comes a train of little ladies From scholastic trammels free, Each a little bit afraid is, Wondering what the world can be! Is it but a world of trouble -
I once did know a Turkish man Whom I upon a two-pair-back met, His name it was EFFENDI KHAN BACKSHEESH PASHA BEN… A DOCTOR BROWN I also knew -
The Sun, whose rays Are all ablaze With ever-living glory, Will not deny His majesty -
Quixotic is his enterprise, and ho… Who seeks for jocularities that ha… The world has joked incessantly fo… And every joke that’s possible has… I started as a humorist with lots…
A tar, but poorly prized, Long, shambling, and unsightly, Thrashed, bullied, and despised, Was wretched JOE GOLIGHTLY. He bore a workhouse brand;
When all night long a chap remains On sentry-go, to chase monotony He exercises of his brains, That is, assuming that he’s got an… Though never nurtured in the lap
I am the very pattern of a modern… I’ve information vegetable, animal… I know the kings of England, and… From Marathon to Waterloo, in ord… I’m very well acquainted, too, wit…
List while the poet trolls Of MR. CLAYTON HOOPER, Who had a cure of souls At Spiffton-extra-Sooper. He lived on curds and whey,
“COME, collar this bad man - Around the throat he knotted me Till I to choke began - In point of fact, garotted me!” So spake SIR HERBERT WRITE
KING BORRIA BUNGALEE BOO Was a man-eating African swell; His sigh was a hullaballoo, His whisper a horrible yell - A horrible, horrible yell!
Bold-faced ranger (Perfect stranger) Meets two well-behaved young ladie… He’s attractive, Young and active -
I SING a legend of the sea, So hard-a-port upon your lee! A ship on starboard tack! She’s bound upon a private cruise… (This is the kind of spice I use
I love a man who’ll smile and joke When with misfortune crowned; Who’ll pun beneath a pauper’s yoke… And as he breaks his daily toke, Conundrums gay propound.
Spurn not the nobly born With love affected, Nor treat with virtuous scorn The well connected. High rank involves no shame -
I knew a boor - a clownish card (His only friends were pigs and co… The poultry of a small farmyard), Who came into two hundred thousand… Good fortune worked no change in…