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local data = {
{
thing = 'fly',
why = "I don't know why she swallowed the fly. Perhaps she'll die."
},
{
thing = 'spider',
quip = 'It wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.'
},
{
thing = 'bird',
quip = 'How absurd to swallow a bird!',
why = 'She swallowed the bird to catch the spider that wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her.'
},
{
thing = 'cat',
quip = 'Imagine that, to swallow a cat!'
},
{
thing = 'dog',
quip = 'What a hog, to swallow a dog!'
},
{
thing = 'goat',
quip = 'Just opened her throat and swallowed a goat!'
},
{
thing = 'cow',
quip = "I don't know how she swallowed a cow!"
},
{
thing = 'horse',
quip = "She's dead, of course!",
terminal = true
}
}
local function verse(which)
local verse = {
'I know an old lady who swallowed a ' .. data[which].thing .. '.',
data[which].quip
}
if not data[which].terminal then
for i = which, 1, -1 do
local why = 'She swallowed the %s to catch the %s.'
table.insert(verse, data[i].why or why:format(data[i].thing, data[i - 1].thing))
end
end
return table.concat(verse, '\n') .. '\n'
end
local function verses(from, to)
local verses = {}
for i = from, to do
table.insert(verses, verse(i))
end
return table.concat(verses, '\n') .. '\n'
end
local function sing()
return verses(1, #data)
end
return {
verse = verse,
verses = verses,
sing = sing
}
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