The following verses are to be blamed on a lack of sleep and a deplorable sense of rhythm and rhyme. I can only hope that you'll find one or two which make you smile!

Thanks to AlesNox, examples of a more respectable nature, also inspired by childhood nursery literature, may be found in the community "Childhood-in-a-Nutshell".

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Disclaimer: Sherlock, John, and related characters do not belong to me. Copyrights on the nursery rhymes that form the framework for my ramblings are long since lost along with most of the original authors.

There Was A Detective

There was a detective who lived in a flat

He solved many cases always catching the rat!

His brain became bored; He had not a clue;

So he shot at the wall, wanting something to do!

~o~

A/N: Based on "There Was An Old Woman"

There was an old woman who lived in a shoe,

She had so many children she didn't know what to do!

So she gave them some broth without any bread,

And she whipped them all soundly and sent them to bed!