• Jordan Lund@lemmy.one
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    1 year ago

    He had another good one too… imma have to look it up because I don’t have it memorized…

    John gave his brother James a box:
    About it there were many locks.
    James woke and said it gave him pain;
    So gave it back to John again.
    The box was not with lid supplied
    Yet caused two lids to open wide:
    And all these locks had never a key
    What kind of box, then, could it be?

    As curly headed Jemmy was sleeping in bed,
    His brother John gave him a blow on the head.
    James opened his eyelids, and spying his brother,
    Doubled his fists, and gave him another.
    This kind of a box then is not so rare
    The lids are the eyelids, the locks are the hair.
    And any schoolboy can tell you to his cost
    The key to the tangles is constantly lost.