Nursery Rhyme. XLVI. Tales.

        [The tale of Simple Simon forms one of the chap-books, but the following verses are those generally sung in the nursery.]

    Simple Simon met a pieman
        Going to the fair;
    Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
        "Let me taste your ware."

    Says the pieman to Simple Simon,
        "Show me first your penny."
    Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
        "Indeed I have not any."

    Simple Simon went a fishing
        For to catch a whale:
    All the water he had got
        Was in his mother's pail.

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Nursery Rhyme. DXXXV. Natural History. [Bird boy's song.]

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Nursery Rhyme. DCXXV. Relics.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCCIII. Games.

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Nursery Rhyme. CXLV. Songs.

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