Nursery Rhyme. LVIII. Tales.

    The lion and the unicorn
        Were fighting for the crown;
    The lion beat the unicorn
        All round about the town.
    Some gave them white bread,
        And some gave them brown;
    Some gave them plum-cake,
        And sent them out of town.

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