There was an Old Person of Ewell

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No. 108 from A Book of Nonsense (1846)

Picture by Edward Lear

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There was an Old Person of Ewell,
Who chiefly subsisted on gruel;
But to make it more nice
He inserted some mice,
Which refreshed that Old Person of Ewell.

 <Publ. 1846>