There Was a Fat Man of Bombay
Limerick
There was a fat man of Bombay,
Who was smoking one sunshiny day,
When a bird called a snipe,
Flew away with his pipe,
Which vexed the fat man of Bombay.
Photos & Illustrations
Thanks and Acknowledgements
This rhyme and the 2nd illustration are from Denslow's Mother Goose (1901). The first illustration is from The Real Mother Goose (1916), illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright.
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