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Limerick: There was an Old Man of Kamschatka

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Man of Kamschatka,
Who possessed a remarkable fat cur;
His gait and his waddle
Were held as a model
To all the fat dogs in Kamschatka.




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