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The near end of the street was rather dark and had mostly vegetable shops. Abundance of vegetables piles of white and green fennel, like celery, and great sheaves of young, purplish, sea-dust-coloured artichokes ... long strings of dried figs, mountains of big oranges, scarlet large peppers, a large slice of pumpkin, a great mass of colours and vegetable freshness.... David Herbert Lawrence		Monday May 19, 2025
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A wonderful bird is the pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week, But Im damned if I see how the helican. Dixon Lanier Merritt

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	Dixon Lanier Merritt
	Dixon Lanier Merritt (1879 - 1972) was a poet and humorist. He was a newspaper editor for the Tennessean, Nashville's morning paper, and President of the American Press Humorists Association. Dixon Merritt also served as a chef in the army, where he first began writing his limericks to cheer up the soldiers. He penned this famous limerick in 1910. Read More

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A wonderful bird is the pelican, His bill will hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week, But Im damned if I see how the helican.