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A DILLER, a dollar, A ten o'clock scholar, What makes you come so soon ? You used to come at ten o'clock, But now you come at noon.
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MISTRESS Mary, quite contrary, How does your garden grow ? With cockle-shells, and silver bells, And muscles all a row. *
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* This may have reference to the Scotch song—
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A DONKEY walks on four legs, And I walk on two ; The last donkey I saw Was very like you.
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LIAR, liar, lick spit, Turn about the candlestick. What's good for liar ? Brimstone and fire.
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WHEN I was a little boy my mammy kept me in, But now I am a great boy I'm fit to serve the king; I can hand a musket, and I can smoke a pipe, And I can kiss a pretty girl at twelve o'clock at night.
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TELL tale, tit ! Your tongue shall be slit, And all the dogs in the town Shall have a little bit.
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MULTIPLICATION is vexation, Division is as bad ; The Rule of Three doth puzzle me, And Practice drives me mad.
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