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Limerick:There was an Old Person of Anerley

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Person of Anerley,
Whose conduct was strange and unmannerly;
He rushed down the Strand
With a pig in each hand,
But returned in the evening to Anerley.




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