[PW] 'Ough' poem?

[Sue Kamm]

I don't know about a poem, but I remember an "I Love Lucy" episode in which Ricky Ricardo attempted to demonstrate his command of English  (in order to read to their coming baby) by reading a passage full of "ough" words. 

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> [Original Message]
> From: JT Thompson <jtthompson at eircom.net>
> To: <list at project-wombat.org>
> Date: 10/23/2007 1:58:43 AM
> Subject: [PW] 'Ough' poem?
>
> Wombats, step up to the womplate and help: long ago, in a long 
> forgotten book there was an introduction which quoted a poem based on 
> the pronunciation of 'ough'.
>
> It was in the voice of a Frenchman trying to learn English, and each 
> 'ough' word rhymed incorrectly with the pronunciation of the 'ough' 
> word in the previous rhyme-line. It ended 'I killed him with a rough' 
> (to rhyme, of course, with 'lough').
>
> Can anyone identify the poem?
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