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The only true Mother Goose melodies : an exact reproduction of the text and illustrations of the original edition published and copyrighted in Boston in the year 1833 by Munroe & Francis ; (1905)

Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 · Boston : Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co. · leaf 104

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When I was a little boy, my mother kept me in,Now I am a great boy, and fit to serve the king ;I can handle a musket, I can smoke a pipe,I can kiss a pretty girl at ten oclock at night. … 91 Mary had. a pretty bird,(~ Feathers bright and yel- low,Slender legs, upon my word $ He was a pretty fellow. f- The sweetest notes he always sung,Which much delighted Mary, And often where the cage was hung,She stood to hear Canary. This is the way the ladies ride, Prim, prim, prim;This is the…

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