There was an old farmer of Readall
Lewis Carroll
1832 to 1898
There was an old farmer of Readall,
Who made holes in his face with a needle,
Then went far deeper in
Than to pierce through the skin,
And yet strange to say he was made beadle.
Lewis Carroll's There was an old farmer of Readall
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