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Updated: May 13, 2025
He said: 'I think their attitude to life, as you call it, is best expressed in some of Lear's Nonsense Rhymes: "His Aunt Jobiska said, 'Everyone knows that a pobble is better without his toes." Archie looked up in smiling recognition of these lines, and Edith laughed. 'Excuse me, but I don't quite follow you, said young Coniston gravely. 'Why, don't you see?
But Edward Lear, with more subtle and placid effrontery, is always introducing scraps of his own elvish dialect into the middle of simple and rational statements, until we are almost stunned into admitting that we know what they mean. There is a genial ring of commonsense about such lines as, 'For his aunt Jobiska said "Every one knows That a Pobble is better without his toes,"
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