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Unread 06-19-2005, 02:18 PM
Gregory Dowling Gregory Dowling is offline
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There's also the more serious Hood, as in the "Song of the Shirt" (see here ). I think it was Chesterton who said that it was his years of practice at inventing puns that gave him the ability to write loaded lines like:

Stitch-stitch-stitch,
In poverty, hunger and dirt,
Sewing at once, with a double thread,
A Shroud as well as a Shirt.

and:

Oh, God! that bread should be so dear,
And flesh and blood so cheap!
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