Nursery Rhyme. CCLII. Gaffers And Gammers.

    There was an old woman, as I've heard tell,
    She went to market her eggs for to sell;
    She went to market all on a market-day,
    And she fell asleep on the king's highway.

    There came by a pedlar whose name was Stout,
    He cut her petticoats all round about;
    He cut her petticoats up to the knees,
    Which made the old woman to shiver and freeze.

    When this little woman first did wake,
    She began to shiver and she began to shake,
    She began to wonder and she began to cry,
    "Oh! deary, deary me, this is none of I!

    "But if it be I, as I do hope it be,
    I've a little dog at home, and he'll know me;
    If it be I, he'll wag his little tail,
    And if it be not I, he'll loudly bark and wail."

    Home went the little woman all in the dark,
    Up got the little dog, and he began to bark;
    He began to bark, so she began to cry,
    "Oh! deary, deary me, this is none of I!"

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Nursery Rhyme. CCLXX. Gaffers And Gammers.

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Nursery Rhyme. XXXVI. Literal

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Nursery Rhyme. CCXII. Riddles.

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Nursery Rhyme. DXXXVIII. Natural History.

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