Diet

There was a young lady named Maud,
A very deceptive young fraud;
    She never was able
    To eat at the table,
But out in the pantry - O Lord!

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Nursery Rhyme. LXV. Tales.

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Nursery Rhyme. DXXVII. Natural History.

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Nursery Rhyme. DLXXXII. Natural History.

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There was a young lady of Cork,
Whose Pa made a fortune in pork;
    He bought for his daughter
    A tutor who taught her
To balance green peas on her fork.

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Diet

There was a young lady named Perkins,
Who had a great fondness for gherkins;
    She went to a tea
    And ate twenty-three,
Which pickled her internal workin's.

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Gluttony

There was a young person named Ned,
Who dined before going to bed,
On lobster and ham
And salad and jam,
And when he awoke he was dead.

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Etiquet

There was a young man so benighted,
He never knew when he was slighted;
    He would go to a party,
    And eat just as hearty,
As if he'd been really invited.

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Thin People

There was an old fellow named Green,
Who grew so abnormally lean,
    And flat, and compressed,
    That his back touched his chest,
And sideways he couldn't be seen.

There was a young lady of Lynn,
Who was so excessively thin,
    That when she essayed
    To drink lemonade
She slipped through the straw and fell in.

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Extravagance

There was a young girl named O'Neill,
Who went up in the great Ferris wheel;
    But when half way around
    She looked at the ground,
And it cost her an eighty-cent meal.

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