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Limerick:There was an Old Person of Cheadle

by Edward Lear

Edward Lear

There was an Old Person of Cheadle,
Who was put in the stocks by the beadle
For stealing some pigs,
Some coats, and some wigs,
That horrible person of Cheadle.




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