“Straight down the Crooked Lane,
And all round the Square.”

— Thomas Hood

A Plain Direction http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15652/15652-h/15652-h.htm#poem_135, st. 1. <br class="br">1820s

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British writer 1799–1845

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