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Edward Lear

There was an old person of China,
Whose daughters were Jiska and Dinah,
Amelia and Fluffy,
Olivia and Chuffy,
And all of them settled in China.

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From More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes Botany &c. | 1872

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