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The Mendacious Mole

Herford no. 24

Said the mole: “You would never suppose
How far back my family goes.
The first of my name
From Normandy came
On William the Conqueror’s nose.”

[Oliver Herford in The Century Magazine. Vol. LXXXV, March 1913, no. 4, p. 802.]

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