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Nonsense Books

By Edward Lear.

Titlepage
Imprint
“How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear!”
Introduction
Nonsense Books
1. A Book of Nonsense
  1. Dedication
  2. Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures
2. Nonsense Songs, Stories, Botany, and Alphabets
  1. Nonsense Songs
    1. The Owl and the Pussycat
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
    2. The Duck and the Kangaroo
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
    3. The Daddy Long-Legs and the Fly
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
      7. VII
    4. The Jumblies
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
    5. The Nutcrackers and the Sugar-Tongs
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
    6. Calico Pie
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
    7. Mr. and Mrs. Spikky Sparrow
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
      7. VII
    8. The Broom, the Shovel, the Poker, and the Tongs
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
    9. The Table and the Chair
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
  2. Nonsense Stories
    1. The Story of the Four Little Children Who Went Round the World
    2. The History of the Seven Families of the Lake Pipple-Popple
      1. Chapter I: Introductory
      2. Chapter II: The Seven Families
      3. Chapter III: The Habits of the Seven Families
      4. Chapter IV: The Children of the Seven Families Are Sent Away
      5. Chapter V: The History of the Seven Young Parrots
      6. Chapter VI: The History of the Seven Young Storks
      7. Chapter VII: The History of the Seven Young Geese
      8. Chapter VIII: The History of the Seven Young Owls
      9. Chapter IX: The History of the Seven Young Guinea Pigs
      10. Chapter X: The History of the Seven Young Cats
      11. Chapter XI: The History of the Seven Young Fishes
      12. Chapter XII: Of What Occurred Subsequently
      13. Chapter XIII: Of What Became of the Parents of the Forty-Nine Children
      14. Chapter XIV: Conclusion
  3. Nonsense Cookery
    1. Three Receipts for Domestic Cookery
      1. To Make an Amblongus Pie
      2. To Make Crumbobblious Cutlets
      3. To Make Gosky Patties
  4. Nonsense Botany
  5. Nonsense Alphabets
3. More Nonsense Pictures, Rhymes, Botany, etc.
  1. Introduction
  2. Nonsense Botany
  3. One Hundred Nonsense Pictures and Rhymes
  4. Twenty-Six Nonsense Rhymes and Pictures
4. Laughable Lyrics: A Fourth Book of Nonsense Poems, Songs, Botany, Music, etc.
  1. Laughable Lyrics
    1. The Dong with a Luminous Nose
    2. The Two Old Bachelors
    3. The Pelican Chorus
    4. The Courtship of the Yonghy-Bonghy-Bò
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
      7. VII
      8. VIII
      9. IX
      10. X
    5. The Pobble Who Has No Toes
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
    6. The New Vestments
    7. Mr. and Mrs. Discobbolos
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
    8. The Quangle Wangle’s Hat
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
      6. VI
    9. The Cummerbund
      1. I
      2. II
      3. III
      4. IV
      5. V
    10. The Akond of Swat
  2. Nonsense Botany
  3. Nonsense Alphabets
List of Illustrations
Colophon
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“How Pleasant to Know Mr. Lear!”

The following lines by Mr. Lear were written for a young lady of his acquaintance, who had quoted to him the words of a young lady not of his acquaintance, “How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!”

“How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!”
Who has written such volumes of stuff!
Some think him ill-tempered and queer,
But a few think him pleasant enough.

His mind is concrete and fastidious,
His nose is remarkably big;
His visage is more or less hideous,
His beard it resembles a wig.

He has ears, and two eyes, and ten fingers,
Leastways if you reckon two thumbs;
Long ago he was one of the singers,
But now he is one of the dumbs.

He sits in a beautiful parlor,
With hundreds of books on the wall;
He drinks a great deal of Marsala,
But never gets tipsy at all.

He has many friends, lay men and clerical,
Old Foss is the name of his cat;
His body is perfectly spherical,
He weareth a runcible hat.

When he walks in waterproof white,
The children run after him so!
Calling out, “He’s come out in his night⁠—
Gown, that crazy old Englishman, oh!”

He weeps by the side of the ocean,
He weeps on the top of the hill;
He purchases pancakes and lotion,
And chocolate shrimps from the mill.

He reads, but he cannot speak, Spanish,
He cannot abide ginger beer:
Ere the days of his pilgrimage vanish,
How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!

Introduction

Edward Lear, the artist, author of Journals of a Landscape Painter in various out-of-the-way countries, and of the delightful Books of Nonsense, which have amused successive generations of children, died on Sunday, January 29, 1888, at San Remo, Italy, where he had lived for twenty years. Few names could evoke a wider expression of passing regret at their appearance in the obituary column; for until his health began to fail he was known to an immense and almost a cosmopolitan circle of acquaintance, and popular wherever he was known. Fewer still could call up in the minds of intimate friends a deeper and