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Four little children who went round the world

Author: Edward Lear Year: 1871 Length: 352 characters Difficulty: easy Public domain

Nonsense names and a chain of semicolons keep both hands busy and reward careful reading of the line.

For the first ten days they sailed on beautifully, and found plenty to eat, as there were lots of fish; and they had only to take them out of the sea with a long spoon, when the Quangle-Wangle instantly cooked them; and the Pussy-Cat was fed with the bones, with which she expressed herself pleased, on the whole: so that all the party were very happy.

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Edward Lear published this prose tale in 1871 in Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, the book that also carried The Owl and the Pussy-cat. Lear earned his living as a natural history artist and drew parrots for the Zoological Society of London before he was twenty five. His nonsense books made the limerick popular in English after A Book of Nonsense of 1846. The four children sail with a cat to steer and a Quangle-Wangle to cook.

About this text

Edward Lear published this prose tale in 1871 in Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany and Alphabets, the book that also carried The Owl and the Pussy-cat. Lear earned his living as a natural history artist and drew parrots for the Zoological Society of London before he was twenty five. His nonsense books made the limerick popular in English after A Book of Nonsense of 1846. The four children sail with a cat to steer and a Quangle-Wangle to cook.

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Nonsense names and a chain of semicolons keep both hands busy and reward careful reading of the line.

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