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Limerick:There was an Old Person of Burton

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Person of Burton,
Whose answers were rather uncertain;
When they said, 'How d'ye do?'
He replied, 'Who are you?'
That distressing Old Person of Burton.




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