Nursery Rhyme. DX. Natural History.

        [A Dorsetshire version.]

    'Twas the twenty-ninth of May, 'twas a holiday,
    Four and twenty tailors set out to hunt a snail;
    The snail put forth his horns, and roared like a bull,
    Away ran the tailors, and catch the snail who wull.

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