Summary

Bart'lemy fair (1816)

“ Here's the vonderful kangaroo from Botomhouse Bay. Here's the vonderful large baboon, that danc'd a Paddy-dow, and played at leap frog with the celebrated Muster Barrington. Here's the vonderful cow that can't live on the land, and dies in the water; the vonderful sun eagle, the hotter the sun, the higher he flies. ”
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Bart'lemy fair (1816)

“ To drive her to despair;
He swore Jack had fallen overboard,
And never would arrive.
When a hoarse voice like thunderroar'd,
'You lie, friend, Jack's alive.'
'Twas Jack; he chased all her alarms
He kicked Pest down the stairs,
Then, hast'hing to her longing arms,
He banish'd all her cares;
His children to his heart he press'd,
Bid joy again revive:
While Nancy cried, 'I'm truly bless'd,
Thank heaven, my Jack's alive.
This work was published before January 1, 1929, and is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.
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Bart'lemy fair (1816)

“ Here, ma'am, only look at this beautiful hanimal; no two spots on his body alike; it's out of the power of any limmer to describe him; measures fifteen feet from the snout to the tail, and fifteen feet from the tail to the snout; grows an inch and a half every year, and never comes to its proper growth, Turn him up there with a long pole. ”
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