A Book of Nonsense

by Edward Lear · language: en

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See 13646-h.htm or 13646-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/3/6/4/13646/13646-h/13646-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/3/6/4/13646/13646-h.zip) A BOOK OF NONSENSE by EDWARD LEAR With All the Original Pictures and Verses 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.

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AND GRAND-NIECES OF EDWARD, 13TH EARL OF DERBY, THIS BOOK OF DRAWINGS AND VERSES (The greater part of which were originally made and composed for their parents.)

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