Nursery Rhyme. CCLXI. Gaffers And Gammers.

    There was an old woman toss'd up in a basket
        Nineteen times as high as the moon;
    Where she was going I couldn't but ask it,
        For in her hand she carried a broom.

    Old woman, old woman, old woman, quoth I,
        O whither, O whither, O whither, so high?
    To brush the cobwebs off the sky!
        Shall I go with thee? Aye, by and by.

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Nursery Rhyme. DCLII. Relics.

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Nursery Rhyme. DCLV. Relics.

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Nursery Rhyme. CXXXVI. Songs.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXC. Lullabies.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCLXXIV. Gaffers And Gammers.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCLXX. Gaffers And Gammers.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCLIX. Gaffers And Gammers.

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