Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager
imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?
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The king would sing, about a ring that would go ding.
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Black bug bit a big black bear. But where is the big black bear that the big black bug bit?
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The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
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If a white chalk chalks on a black blackboard,
Will a black chalk chalk on a white blackboard?
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Kindly kittens knitting mittens keep kazooing in the king's kitchen.
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Six silver swans swam silently seaward.
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Betty and Bob brought back blue balloons from the big bazaar.
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King Kong kissed Queen Kate.
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Cheap ship trip.
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We surely shall see the sun shine soon.
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The two-twenty-two train tore through the tunnel.
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We surely shall see the sun shine soon.
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Pretty Kitty Creighton had a cotton batten cat.
The cotton batten cat was bitten by a rat.
The kitten that was bitten had a button for an eye,
And biting off the button made the cotton batten fly.
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Say this sharply, say this sweetly,
Say this shortly, say this softly.
Say this sixteen times in succession.
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Betty Botter
Betty Botter
bought some butter.
"But," she said,
"the butter's bitter.
If I put it
in my batter,
it will make
my batter bitter.
But a bit
of better butter--
that would make
my batter better."
So she bought
a bit of butter,
better than
her bitter butter.
And she put it
in her batter,
and the batter
was not bitter.
So 'twas better
Betty Botter
bought a bit
of better butter!
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Whenever the weather is cold.
Whenever the weather is hot.
We'll whether the weather,
whatever the weather,
whether we like it or not.