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There was a prodigious young fop, dressed to kill from the foot to the top:
All the girls at the Fair could do nothing but stare
And keep clear of that killing young fop.

From The new book of nonsense, published by Ashmead & Evans, Philadelphia, 1864.

(Source: archive.org)

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There was a prodigious young fop, dressed to kill from the foot to the top:
All the girls at the Fair could do nothing but stare
And keep clear of that killing young fop.

From The new book of nonsense, published by Ashmead & Evans, Philadelphia, 1864.

(Source: archive.org)


Monday, December 31, 2012
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