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Posted by Marco on September 19th, 2007

From The Young and Field Literary Readers. Book Three. By Ella Flagg Young and Walter Taylor Field. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1914; available through Google Books:

EDWARD LEAR AND HIS NONSENSE SONGS SOMETHING ABOUT EDWARD LEAR Mrs Jones was calling on Mamma one Harold was curled up in a chair had a broad grin upon his face and now he would shake with laughter What is the matter with the child Jones He is reading some of Edward Lear's verses Mamma If they are as funny as that I should like them said Mrs Jones



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