THE NEW BOOK OF NONSENSE

By Anonymous

Contribution to the Great Central Fair

In Aid of the Sanitary Commission


Asmead and Evans

1864

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A dandy came on from New York,

As pompous and stiff as a stork,

When he said, "if you dont know how to get up a show,"

They just raffled a dandy from York.

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There lived and Old Maid in the city of Trenton, who to marry a youth,

all her faculties bent on,

She essay'd every art, to inveigle the heart of every young Dandy in Trenton.

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There was an old King of Dahomey,

Whose realm was more sterile than loamy;

So he bagged little "niggers"

Which he sold at high Jiggers,

To the Yankees who trade at Dahomey.

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There was a young person of Boston,

And the vaguest of doubts she was tossed on.

Of effect and of cause

She discoursed without pause:

Remarkable person of Boston!

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There was a young lady who said

"I seldom wear hair on my head;

I carry my locks about in a box,

For such is the fashion" she said.

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