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The Owl and the Pussycat is a nonsense poem written by Edward Lear in 1871. It was a part of his book Nonsense songs, stories, botany and alphabet. He wrote it for a three-year-old girl, Janet who was his friend's daughter.

In the poem, Edward Lear makes up words to use like the word 'runcible' which was invented in The Owl and the Pussycat.

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