Nursery Rhyme. DLXXI. Natural History.

        Jack Sprat
        Had a cat,
    It had but one ear;
        It went to buy butter,
    When butter was dear.

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Nursery Rhyme. XXIV. Historical

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCLVI. Games.

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Nursery Rhyme. DCI. Local.

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    Jack Sprat's pig,
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Nursery Rhyme. DLXVI. Natural History.

    I had a little hen, the prettiest ever seen,
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    She sat by the fire and told many a fine tale.

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Nursery Rhyme. DLXXIII. Natural History.

    See, saw, Margery Daw,
    The old hen flew over the malt house,
    She counted her chickens one by one,
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    And this is it, this is it, this is it.

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Nursery Rhyme. DLXV. Natural History.

    Snail, snail, shut out your horns;
        Father and mother are dead:
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        Begging for barley bread.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCCLXIV. Love And Matrimony.

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Nursery Rhyme. DLXXII. Natural History.

    On Christmas eve I turn'd the spit,
    I burnt my fingers, I feel it yet;
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