Nursery Rhyme. CCLXIX. Gaffers And Gammers.

    There was an old man of Tobago,
    Who lived on rice, gruel, and sago;
        Till, much to his bliss,
        His physician said this -
    "To a leg, sir, of mutton you may go."

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Nursery Rhyme. CLIII. Songs.

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Nursery Rhyme. CXXIV. Scholastic.

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Any One Will Do

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Nursery Rhyme. CXLIX. Songs.

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