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One of my favourite nursery rhymes that my mother said to me in my childhood. I in turn said it to my own children. Ding dong bell Pussy's in the well Who put her in? Little Johnny Flynn Who pulled her out? Little Tommy Stout What a naughty boy was that Try to drown poor Pussycat, Who ne'er did...

Thanks, Dr L. very gratifying. Just noticed - by using the search facility - that GSC quoted from it as a Clown Quote of the Day among many other DFL quotes-of-the-day* he once kindly made on TLO a year or so ago, i.e. second from the bottom here...

Just look at him! There he stands, With his nasty hair and hands. See! his nails are never cut; They are grim'd as black as soot; And the sloven, I declare, Never once has comb'd his hair; Any thing to me is sweeter Than to see Shock-headed Peter.

I wrote this in 1967:Wordhunger