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WHO
goes round the house at night ? None but bloody Tom ! Who steals all the sheep at night ? None, but one by one.
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BRYAN O'Lin had no watch to put on, So he scooped out a turnip to make himself one : He caught a cricket and put it within, And called it a ticker did Bryan O'Lin !
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BRYAN O'Lin had no breeches to wear, So he bought him a sheepskin to make him a pair : With the skinny side out, and the woolly side in, Oh ! how nice and warm, cried Bryan O'Lin.
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THERE was a man who had no eyes, He went abroad to view the skies : He saw a tree with apples on it, He took no apples off, yet left no apples on it.
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MY lady's lap-dog. Two Persian cherry trees and my lady's, &c. Three grey elephants, two, &c. Four Indian monkeys singing a merry song on Killigrew's wedding-day, three, &c. Five flat floating fly-boats sailing from Madagascar to Mount Cornelia, four, &c. Six score of Italian dancing-masters teaching a raven and a magpie to sing, five, &c. Seven pair of Don Rons with two pair of whiskers on, six, &c. Eight concubines taken from the grand Signior's seraglio, seven, &c. Nine Turkey merchants clothed in green and grey, standing before the Porto Bristo, eight, &c. Ten sons of Mahackmedash, going from Inculo to Pinculo, to marry the ten daughters of Abednego, nine, &c.
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CUSHY cow bonny, let down thy milk, And I will give thee a gown of silk : A gown of silk and a silver tee, If thou wilt let down thy milk to me.
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WILLY
boy, Willy boy, where are you going ? I'll go with you, if I may : I'm going to the meadow to see them a mowing, I'm going to help them make hay.
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RAIN,
rain, go away, Come again another day ; Little Arthur wants to play.
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ROBERT BARNES, fellow fine, Can you shoe this horse of mine ? Yes, good sir, that I can, As well as any other man : There's a nail, and there's a prod, And now, good sir, your horse is shod.
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WHAT'S
the news of the day, Good neighbour, I pray ? They say the balloon Is gone up to the moon.
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THERE
was an old man of Tobago, Who lived on rice, gruel, and sago ; Till, much to his bliss, His physician said this— "To a leg, sir, of mutton you may go."
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THERE
was an old woman called Nothing-at-all, Who rejoiced in a dwelling exceedingly small : A man stretched his mouth to its utmost extent, And down at one gulp house and old woman went.
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HINK,
minx ! the old witch winks, The fat begins to fry : There's nobody at home but jumping Joan, Father, mother, and I !
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TO market,
to market, To buy a plum bun : Home again, home again, Market is done.
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AS I was going o'er Westminster bridge, I met with a Westminster scholar ; He pulled off his cap and drew off his glove, And wished me a very good morrow.
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EVERY lady in this land Has twenty nails upon each hand, Five and twenty hands and feet, All this is true without deceit.
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WHISKUM whaskum, over the knee ; Thank you, mama, for slapping of me.
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IN fir tar is, In oak none is : In mud eel is, In clay none is.
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BLACK we are, but much admired ; Men seek for us till they are tired. We tire the horse, but comfort man ; Tell me this riddle if you can.
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