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Betty Botter
66 wordsBetty Botter bought some butter. “But,” she said, “this butter’s bitter; If I put it in my batter, It will make my batter bitter; But a bit of better butter Will but make my batter better.” So she bought a bit of butter Better than the bitter butter, And made her bitter batter better. So it was better Betty Botter Bought a bit of better butter.
Buttered Bran Bread
7 wordsBring a bit of buttered bran bread.
Dew Drops
16 wordsAs much of the dew that the dew drops drop, if dew drops do drop dew.
Freshly Dried Flying Fish
6 wordsFlesh of freshly dried flying fish.
Peter Piper
35 wordsPeter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers. Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers? If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
The Fish-Sauce Shop
16 wordsShe stood at the door of Mrs. Smith’s fish-sauce shop in the Strand welcoming him in.