A flea and a fly in a flue

A flea and a fly in a flue

Original Text
The Penguin Book of Limericks, ed. E. O. Parrott (Allen Lane, 1983): 256.
2Were imprisoned, so what could they do?
3     Said the fly: `Let us flee'
4     Said the flea: `Let us fly!'
5So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

Notes

1] flue: a chimney or boiler pipe that releases flames and hot gases to the air but that, in mild weather, might have been stopped up? Back to Line
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
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RPO 1999.
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