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Revenge on the Nursemaid
The Deadfly Ensemble
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My nursemaid once gave me a kiss and a farthing.
Two pence would have made sense; this was alarming.
I was a good boy! I never got sick!
So this slice of a penny induced a coin trick.
I traded my farthing for an old metal soldier
which I sold to my brother, a collector, much older.
He gave me a penny which then begat three
when I found for the soldier some staunch company.
My threepenny bit soon turned to a tanner
when I resold some fruit; some plums and bananas.
A half-shilling's worth of shoe polish came next,
and two bob from the bank men left my pockets perplexed.
With florin in hand I set up a stand
and sold Penny Dreadfuls at second hand.
Inside of a week I'd made half a crown,
and my story appraisals had earned some renown.
For one sovereign, one guinea, I sold off my stock
and found my revenge when the nursemaid was shopping;
she cried at the till, "All I need is two pence!"
Said I, "All I've got is ten pound, four and six."
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