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USSY-CAT, pussy-cat, where have you been? I've been up to London to look at the queen. Pussy-cat, pussy-cat, what did you there?

I frighten'd a little mouse under the chair.

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ICKETY, pickety, my black hen,
She lays eggs for gentlemen;

Gentlemen come every day

To see what my black hen doth lay.

HE cock doth crow,

TH cock doth

To let you know,

If you be wise,

'Tis time to rise.

R

OBERT 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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[Bird boy's song.]

AT, birds, eat, and make no waste;

I lie here and make no haste:

If my master chance to come,
You must fly, and I must run.

FOUR

OUR and twenty tailors went to kill a snail; The best man among them durst not touch her tail.

She put out her horns like a little Kyloe cow; Run, tailors, run, or she'll kill you all e'en now.

He sucks little birds' eggs
To make his voice clear;
And when he sings "Cuckoo!"
The summer is near.

ROAK!" said the Toad, "I'm hungry, I think;

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mean?

To-day I've had nothing to eat or to drink; I'll crawl to a garden and jump through the pales, And there I'll dine nicely on slugs and on snails." "Ho, ho!" quoth the Frog, "is that what you Then I'll hop away to the next meadow stream; There I will drink, and eat worms and slugs too, And then I shall have a good dinner like you.'