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 66
53 … There was a man and he had naught, And robbers came to rob him;He crept up to the chimney top, And then they thought they had him.But he got down on tother side, And then they could not find him:He ran fourteen miles in fifteen days, And never lookd behind him. 54
Nursery rhymes
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