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May 23, 2009

May 23, 1799

Thomas Hood was a Victorian humorist. He was born on May 23, 1799. We can get a sense of his comedy from this setup, included in The Works of Thomas Hood, Comic and Serious, in Prose and Verse, with All the Original Illustrations. (1882).

"WHY don't you carry your young ones in a bag as I do?" inquired a
marsupial animal of one of the feline species."
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