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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 64

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As I was going to sell my eggs, I met a thief with bandy legs, Bandy legs and crooked toes, I tript up his heels and he fell on his nose. Old mistress McSlmttleLived in a coal-scuttle, Along with her dog and her cat;What they ate I cant tell,But tis known very well, That none of the party were fat.… … Hen. Cock, cock, cock, cock, Ive laid an egg, Am I to gang ba-are-foot ?Cock. Hen, hen, hen, hen, Ive been up and down, To every shop in town, And cannot find a shoe To fit your foot, If Id crow my hea-art out. [To be said very quickly, except the last two words in each verse, which areto be…

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