Nursery Rhyme. CCCLXXXV. Lullabies.

    Bye, baby bumpkin,
    Where's Tony Lumpkin?
    My lady's on her death-bed,
    With eating half a pumpkin.

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Nursery Rhyme. LIX. Tales.

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