Nursery Rhyme. CCXVIII. Riddles.

    Pease-porridge hot, pease-porridge cold,
    Pease-porridge in the pot, nine days old.
    Spell me that without a P,
    And a clever scholar you will be.

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Nursery Rhyme. XLIII. Literal

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Nursery Rhyme. LXXXIX. Proverbs.

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Nursery Rhyme. DXCI. Natural History.

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Nursery Rhyme. L. Tales.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCLXXXIII. Games.

        [Game with the hands.]

    Pease-pudding hot,
        Pease-pudding cold,
    Pease-pudding in the pot,
        Nine days old.
    Some like it hot,
        Some like it cold,
    Some like it in the pot,
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Nursery Rhyme. CCXXV. Riddles.

        [A Cinder-sifter.]

    A riddle, a riddle, as I suppose,
    A hundred eyes, and never a nose.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCVIII. Riddles.

        [Cleopatra.]

    The moon nine days old,
    The next sign to cancer;
    Pat rat without a tail; -
    And now, sir, for your answer,

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Nursery Rhyme. CXCI. Riddles.

    Ten and ten and twice eleven,
    Take out six and put in seven;
    Go to the green and fetch eighteen,
    And drop one a coming.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCV. Riddles.

        [Currants.]

    Higgledy piggledy
        Here we lie,
    Pick'd and pluck'd,
        And put in a pie.
    My first is snapping, snarling, growling,
    My second's industrious, romping, and prowling.
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Nursery Rhyme. CXCVIII. Riddles.

        [A plum-pudding.]

    Flour of England, fruit of Spain,
    Met together in a shower of rain;
    Put in a bag tied round with a string,
    If you'll tell me this riddle, I'll give you a ring.

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