Nursery Rhyme. LXIX. Tales.

    A dog and a cock,
    A journey once took,
        They travell'd along till 'twas late;
    The dog he made free
    In the hollow of a tree,
        And the cock on the boughs of it sate.

    The cock nothing knowing,
    In the morn fell a crowing,
        Upon which comes a fox to the tree;
    Says he, I declare,
    Your voice is above,
        All the creatures I ever did see.

    Oh! would you come down
    I the fav'rite might own,
        Said the cock, there's a porter below;
    If you will go in,
    I promise I'll come down.
        So he went - and was worried for it too.

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