There was a young lady of station,
“I love man” was her sole exclamation;
But when men cried, “You flatter,”
She replied, “Oh! no matter,
Isle of Man is the true explanation.”
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[18] The editor has received this Limerick from Miss Vera Beringer; it
is probably the only one Lewis Carroll ever perpetrated. In common with
the rest of the English theatre-going public, he was charmed with Miss
Beringer’s acting as “Little Lord Fauntleroy” in the original London
presentation of that play in 1890, and the little girl, as she then
was, became one of his many child friends. He sent her the Limerick
when she was spending a holiday in Manxland.