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Title: A Book of Nonsense
Author: Edward Lear
Release Date: October 8, 2004 [eBook #13646]
Language: English
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A BOOK OF NONSENSE
by
EDWARD LEAR
With All the Original Pictures and Verses
[Illustration]
There was an Old Derry down Derry, who loved to see little folks merry;
So he made them a Book, and with laughter they shook
At the fun of that Derry down Derry.
Original Dedication.
TO THE
GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, GRAND-NEPHEWS, AND GRAND-NIECES
OF EDWARD, 13TH EARL OF DERBY,
THIS BOOK OF DRAWINGS AND VERSES
(The greater part of which were o