Assertion: limerick's line | /r/CapableOf | begin in day
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text: (1872), tells us where he got the limerick form from: Long years ago, in the days when much of my time was spent in a country house, where children and mirth abounded, the lines beginning, 'There was an Old Man of Tobago', were suggested to me by a valued friend, as a form of verse lending itself to limitless variety for Rhymes and Pictures, and thenceforth the greater part of the original drawings and verses for the first Book of Nonsense were struck off.