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$10 limerick #4

There was a young girl of Baroda,
Who built a new kind of pagoda.
     The walls of its halls
     Were festooned with the balls
And the tools of the fools that bestrode her.

Norman Douglas:
"A dainty little item from America. The structure referred to must be of recent date. It is not mentioned in Fergusson's monumental work on Indian architecture, and nothing was known of it during my last stay in the old Mahratta city, else I should certainly have visited it in preference to cotton mills and other local sights. It must be a cosy kind of place.

"Pagodas are expensive to build, and this young Amazon was doubtless rich; no richer, I daresay, than some of our English lady-millionaires. The late Baroness Burdett-Coutts, for instance, was famous for her munificence in endowing public buildings.

"That temples should be used for the preservation of trophies is a universal trait. We need only think of St. George's Chapel or Westminster Abbey. Under the Greeks and Romans they served a similar purpose, besides being both banks and museums, and brothels."

$10 Limerick No.5

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man of Devizes man of Australia man called McLean lady of Kew
man of the Cape lady named Skinner man of Kildare man of Cape Horn
Dean of Saint Paul's lady called Wylde student of John's man of Loch Leven