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Little Miss Patty and Master Paul
Have found two snails on the garden wall.
"These snails," said Paul, "how slow they walk!
A great deal slower than we can talk.
Make haste, Mr. Snail, travel quicker, I pray;
In a race with our tongues you'd be beaten to-day."

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Yes, it is sad of them--
Shocking to me;
Bad--yes, it's bad of them--
Bad of all three.

Warnings they've had from me.
Still I repeat them--
Cold is the water--the
Fishes will eat them.

Yet they will row about,
Tho' I say "Fie!" to them;
Fathers may scold at it,
Mothers may cry to them.

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Now, all of you, give heed unto
The tale I now relate,
About two girls and one small boy,
A cat, and a green gate.

* * * * *

Alack! since I began to speak
(And what I say is true),
It's all gone out of my poor head--
And so good-bye to you!

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What is Tommy running for,
Running for,
Running for?
What is Tommy running for,
On this fine day?

Jimmy will run after Tommy,
After Tommy,
After Tommy;
That's what Tommy's running for,
On this fine day.

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A butcher's boy met a baker's boy
(It was all of a summer day);
Said the butcher's boy to the baker's boy,
"Will you please to walk my way?"

Said the butcher's boy to the baker's boy,
"My trade's the best in town,"
"If you dare say that," said the baker's boy,
"I shall have to knock you down!"

Said the butcher's boy to the baker's boy,
"That's a wicked thing to do;
And I think, before you've knocked me down,
The cook will blow up you!"

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The twelve Miss Pelicoes
Were twelve sweet little girls;
Some wore their hair in pigtail plaits,
And some of them wore curls.

The twelve Miss Pelicoes
Had dinner every day;--
A not uncommon thing at all,
You probably will say.

The twelve Miss Pelicoes
Went sometimes for a walk;
It also is a well-known fact
That all of them could talk.

The twelve Miss Pelicoes,
Of course, to school were sent;
Their parents wished them to excel
In each accomplishment.

The twelve Miss Pelicoes
Played music--_Fal-lal-la!_
Which consequently made them all
The pride of their papa.

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