Anonymous

“ I was forced to bring my wife home in a wheelbarrow.
The wheelbarrow broke and my wife had a fall—
Down came wheelbarrow, wife, and all.
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The rose is red, the violet blue;
Sugar is sweet—and so are you. ”

“ Thou shalt not wash dishes, nor yet feed the swine;
But sit on a cushion and sew a fine seam,
And feast upon strawberries, sugar, and cream!
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There was an old woman lived under the hill,
And if she's not gone, she's living there still.
Baked apples she sold, and cranberry pies;
And she's the old woman that never told lies.
Hark! Hark! the dogs do bark,
The beggars have come to town ”

“ There was a mad man,
And he had a mad wife,
And they lived all in a mad lane.
They had three children all at a birth,
And they too were mad every one.
The father was mad,
The mother was mad,
The children all mad beside ”