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Title: Nonsense Drolleries
The Owl & The Pussy-Cat--The Duck & The Kangaroo.

Author: Edward Lear

Illustrator: William Foster

Release Date: December 15, 2006 [EBook #20113]

Language: English

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LEAR'S NONSENSE DROLLERIES

THE OWL & THE PUSSY CAT

AND

THE DUCK
& THE
KANGAROO

[Illustration]

WITH
Original Illustrations
BY
WILLIAM FOSTER

LONDON & NEW YORK
FREDERICK WARNE AND CO.
1889

_ALL RIGHTS RESERVED._

The Owl
and
The Pussy-Cat.

* * * * *

The Duck
and
The Kangaroo.

Nonsense Drolleries

_The Owl & The Pussy-Cat--The Duck & The Kangaroo._

BY

EDWARD LEAR,

AUTHOR OF "THE BOOK OF NONSENSE," ETC.

WITH ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS BY WILLIAM FOSTER

LONDON & NEW YORK
FREDERICK WARNE AND CO.
1889

_ALL RIGHTS RESERVED._

_PUBLISHERS' PREFACE._

The almost general desire to have THE OWL
and THE PUSSY-CAT, THE DUCK and THE
KANGAROO, in a distinct form from Mr. LEAR's
other Nonsense Drolleries, has induced us to
issue them separately with Original Illustrations.

FREDK. WARNE & CO.

London
Engraved & Printed
at
Racquet Court,
_by_
_Edmund Evans_.

[Illustration]

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea
In a beautiful pea-green boat,

They took some honey, and plenty of money
Wrapped up in a five-pound note.

[Illustration]

The Owl looked up to the stars above,
And sang to a small guitar,

"O lovely Pussy! O Pussy, my love,
What a beautiful Pussy you are,
You are,
You are!
What a beautiful Pussy you are!"

[Illustration]

Pussy said to the Owl, "You elegant fowl!
How charmingly sweet you sing!

O let us be married! too long we