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apples baby Beccles besom bit the cat butcher carrion crow Catskin Cock me cary cou'd dame dance daughter day of Christmas diddle ding door fair fiddle fire Four colly birds give gone green heigh horn house that Jack Jack built JACK SPRAT John Ball John Block John Crowder Johnny jump'd Kind sir king king of France Kitty lady lee legs little dog little girl little pig LITTLE Robin Redbreast lol de riddle looby lord malt That lay married merry milk mother mouse ne'er night nursery oh poor Colly old woman pear tree Pemmy penny Pray pretty maid queen rhyme ride round Say the bells Seven swans shoe Simple Simon song stick tail tell thee thou Three French hens Thumb Titty's dead Tom Thumb took town true love sent turtle doves wife
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Page 284 - He, and destroyed the angel of death that slew the butcher that killed the ox that drank the water that quenched the fire that burned the stick that beat the dog that bit the cat that ate the kid that my father bought for two zuzim.