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Build it up with stone so strong, Dance over, my Lady Lee; Huzza! 't will last for ages long, My gay lady.

OLD Mother Goose, when

She wanted to wander, Would ride through the air On a very fine gander.

Mother Goose had a house,
'T was built in a wood,

Where an owl at the door

For sentinel stood.

This is her son Jack,
A plain-looking lad;
He is not very good,
Nor yet very bad.

She sent him to market,

A live goose he bought: "Here! mother,” says he, "It will not go for naught."

Jack's goose and her gander
Grew very fond;

They'd both eat together,
Or swim in one pond.

Jack found one morning,
As I have been told,

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Jack rode to his mother,

The news for to tell.
She called him a good boy,
And said it was well.

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SIMPLE SIMON met a pieman,
Going to the fair;

Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
Let me taste your ware."

Says the pieman to Simple Simon, "Show me first your penny."

Says Simple Simon to the pieman, "Indeed I have not any."

Simple Simon went a-fishing
For to catch a whale;

All the water he could find
Was in his mother's pail!

Simple Simon went to look

If plums grew on a thistle; He pricked his fingers very much, Which made poor Simon whistle.

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He went to catch a dicky bird,
And thought he could not fail,
Because he had a little salt

To put upon its tail.

He went for water with a sieve,
But soon it all ran through;

And now poor Simple Simon
Bids you all adieu.

SEE a pin and pick it up,

All the day you 'll have good luck;
See a pin and let it lay,

Bad luck you'll have all the day.

THE man in the wilderness asked me

How many strawberries grew in the

sea.

I answered him, as I thought good, As many as red herrings grew in the wood.

JACK be nimble, Jack be quick,
Jack, jump over the candlestick!

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