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The Book of Nonsense/There was an Old Person of Sparta

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London: F. Warne & Co., page 101

There was an Old Person of Sparta,
Who had twenty-five sons and one "darter";
He fed them on snails,
And weighed them in scales,
That wonderful Person of Sparta.

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