“Uncle, whose inventive brains
kept evolving aeroplanes,
fell from an enormous height
upon my garden lawn last night.
Flying is a fatal sport,
uncle wrecked the tennis court.”

—  Harry Graham

Uncle
Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes (1899)

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