THERE was a man, and be had

ΤΗ

'HERE was a man, and he had nought, And robbers came to rob him;

He crept up to the chimney-pot,

And then they thought they had him.

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But he got down on t' other side,
And then they could not find him.
He ran fourteen miles in fifteen days,
And never looked behind him.

LLB

TH

Were fighting for the crown;

The lion beat the unicorn

All round about the town.

Some gave them white bread,

And some gave them brown;
Some gave them plum-cake,

And sent them out of town.

HERE was a fat man of Bombay,

TH

Who was smoking one sunshiny day,
When a bird, called a snipe,

Flew away with his pipe,

Which vexed the fat man of Bombay.

TOM

OM, Tom, the piper's son,
Sole a
Stole a pig, and away he run!

and

The pig was eat, and Tom was beat,

And Tom went roaring down the street.

B

RYAN O'LIN, and his wife, and wife's mother,

They all went over a bridge together;

The bridge was broken, and they all fell in,

The deuce go with all! quoth Bryan O'Lin.