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hings in Reginald Scot's "Discovery of Witchcraft." Thus our old nursery rhymes are smooth stones from the brook of time, worn round by constant friction of tongues long silent. We cannot hope to make new nursery rhymes, any more than we can write new fairy tales. [Illustration: Index of First Lines] Page A CARRION crow sat on an oak 103 A diller, a dollar 49 A farmer went trotting 246 A little cock-sparrow sat on a green tree 230 A little old man and I fell out 157 A long-tail'd pig, or a short-tail'd pig 229 A man of words and not of deeds 79 A man went a hunting at Reigate 273 A pie sat on a pear-tree 227 A sunshiny shower 82 A swarm of bees in May 82 A was an apple-pie 46 A was an Archer, and shot at a frog 45 All of a row 220 Around the green gravel the grass grows green 268 Arthur O'Bower has broken his band 124 As I walked by myself 38 As I was going by Charing Cross 37 As I was going o'er Westminster Bridge 132 As I was going to sell my eggs 268 As I was going to St. Ives 131 As I was going up Pippen-hill 209 As I went through the garden gap 132 As soft as silk, as white as milk 124 As the days lengthen 83 As Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks 203 BAH, bah, black sheep 240 Barber, barber, shave a pig
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