Reading Comprehension #14018

Read these limericks for fun. Notice the rhyme scheme for each poem.

A flea and a fly in a flue A
were caught, so what could they do? A
   Said the fly, "Let us flee." B
   "Let us fly," said the flea. B
So they flew through a flaw in the flue. A


There was an old man of Nantucket A
who kept all his cash in a bucket; A
   But his daughter, named Nan, B
   Ran away with a man B
And as for the bucket, Nantucket. A

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