There Was a Fat Man of Bombay
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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.
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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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