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
RPO Edition:
RPO 1999.
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