Nursery Rhyme. CLXXXVII. Riddles.

        [Snuff.]

    As I look'd out o' my chamber window
        I heard something fall;
    I sent my maid to pick it up,
        But she couldn't pick it all.

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Nursery Rhyme. DXXXII. Natural History.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCXV. Games.

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