Nursery Rhyme. CXXVIII. Scholastic.

        [A Greek bill of fare.]

    LEGOMOTON,
    Acapon,
    Alfagheuse,
    Pasti venison.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCLXXXIX. Lullabies.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCXXIII. Riddles.

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Nursery Rhyme. DL. Natural History.

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Nursery Rhyme. CXIII. Scholastic.

        [The dominical letters attached to the first days of the several months are remembered by the following lines.]

    At Dover Dwells George Brown Esquire,
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Nursery Rhyme. CXXI. Scholastic.

        Cross patch,
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Nursery Rhyme. CCXCIII. Games.

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Nursery Rhyme. CXXVI. Scholastic.

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