WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
When this verse has been properly punctuated it will not look so foolish as it does now: A funny little man told this to mo I fell in a snowdrift in Juno said he I went to a cricket match out to sea I saw a jellyfish float up a tree I found some birds in a cup of tea I stirred my milk with a big brass key I opened the door on my bended knee 1 beg your pardon for this said he But it's true when told as it ought to be It's a punctuation puzzle you see.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19163, 31 October 1925, Page 4 (Supplement)
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105WHAT DOES IT MEAN? New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 19163, 31 October 1925, Page 4 (Supplement)
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