Thursday, January 1, 2004

Annie Protheroe. A Legend Of Stratford-Le-Bow Comments

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OH! listen to the tale of little ANNIE PROTHEROE.
She kept a small post-office in the neighbourhood of BOW;
She loved a skilled mechanic, who was famous in his day -
A gentle executioner whose name was GILBERT CLAY.
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William Schwenck Gilbert
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Konab Ghumman 03 April 2019

well penned it. The morrow GILBERT boldly on the scaffold took his stand, With a vizor on his face and with a hatchet in his hand, And all the people noticed that the Engine of the Law Was far less like a hatchet than a dissipated saw.

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