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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Nursery Rhyme. DCLVII. Relics.

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