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Artist and poet who popularised the limerick with A Book of Nonsense (1846), and wrote “The Owl and the Pussy-cat.”
There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, “It is just as I feared!— Two Owls and a Hen, Four Larks and a Wren, Have all built their nests in my beard!”
There was an Old Man who said, “Hush! I perceive a young bird in this bush!” When they said—“Is it small?” He replied—“Not at all! It is four times as big as the bush!”