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A Love-Sick Young Barn-Owl In Kew

Anonymous

A love-sick young barn-owl in Kew
Had a pretty young she-owl in view.
  He twittered, “I oughter
  Endeavor to court ‘er
But I don’t have enough wit to woo!”

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