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THE BARRACLOUGH FOOFAROUGH 

We Barracloughs are tough 
We Barracloughs are thorough. 
We’ve shaken every bough, 
We’ve beaten every borough. 
Directories we plough 
Methodically through 
Are each a very trough 
Of Goughs and Houghs 
– a slough. 
Of Cloughs and Bloughs. 
What though 
We come down with the cough? 
What though we squander dough 
And time? It is enough 
To know there is no –ough 
That rhymes with Barraclough. 

George Starbuck 

From a tattered copy that says from the New Yorker, by courtesy of Jeannette Claridge 
Further details of the author are sought. 

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Found 07*2002 @ 
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surreal/barraclough/index.html