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 s