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NONSENSE VERSES

    If you don't own a fleet,
    You must take a back seat,
And I'll be the boss of the show."

Said a man with a face full of woe,
"There's a riddle I want much to know;
    How is it that I'm
    To sail five boats at a time?
And that is what's troubling me so."

Said a man, "If my boat had a jigger
I could cut a most elegant figger;
    I'd sail forward and back
    Without making a tack,
And I'd feel about twenty times bigger."

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