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DING, DONG, BELL.

THE KING OF FRANCE WENT UP THE HILL.

The King of France went up the hill,
With twenty thousand men;

The King of France came down the hill,
And ne'er went up again.

THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL.

There was a little girl,

And she had a little curl

Right in the middle of her forehead.

When she was good

She was very, very good,

But when she was bad she was horrid.

DING, DONG, BELL.

Ding, dong, bell; Pussy's in the well.
Who put her in? Little Tommy Green.
Who pulled her out? Great Johnny Stout.
What a naughty boy was that,

To drown poor pussy-cat,

Who never did him any harm,

But killed the mice in his father's barn!

BYE, BABY BUNTING.

Bye, baby Bunting,
Father's gone a-hunting,

Gone to get a rabbit skin

To wrap the baby Bunting in.

SING A SONG OF SIXPENCE.

Sing a song of sixpence,

A bag full of rye;

Four and twenty blackbirds
Baked in a pie.

When the pie was open'd,

The birds began to sing;

Was not that a dainty dish
To set before the king?

The king was in his counting-house
Counting out his money;
The queen was in the parlor
Eating bread and honey;

The maid was in the garden
Hanging out the clothes,

There came a little blackbird

And snapt off her nose.

There was a man in our town,

And he was wondrous wise;
He jumped into a bramble bush,
And scratched out both his eyes:
And when he saw his eyes were out,
With all his might and main
He jumped into another bush,
And scratched them in again.

YANKEE DOODLE.

Yankee Doodle came to town,
Riding on a pony;

He stuck a feather in his hat

And called him Macaroni.

LITTLE JACK HORNER.

Little Jack Horner sat in a corner,

Eating a Christmas pie;

He put in his thumb, and pulled out a plum, And said, "What a good boy am I!"

THERE WAS A CROOKED MAN.

There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile,

He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked

stile,

He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked

mouse,

And they all lived together in a little crooked house.

ONE MISTY, MOISTY MORNING.

One misty, moisty morning,

When cloudy was the weather,

I chanced to meet an old man clothed all in

leather.

He began to compliment, and I began to grin,
How do you do? and how do you do?

And how do you do again?

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DAFFY-DOWN-DILLY.

I SAW AN OLD WOMAN.

I saw an old woman toss'd up in a basket,
Nineteen times as high as the moon;

But where she was going, I couldn't but ask it,
For in her hand she carried a broom.

"Old woman, old woman, old woman," quoth I, “O whither, O whither, O whither, so high?” "To brush the cobwebs off the sky!" "Shall I go with thee?" "Aye, by and by."

FOUR-AND-TWENTY TAILORS.

Four-and-twenty tailors
Went to kill a snail;
The best man among them

Durst not touch her tail;

She put out her horns

Like a little Kyloe cow.

Run, tailors, run, or

She'll kill you all just now.

DAFFY-DOWN-DILLY.

Daffy-down-dilly has come up to town,

In a yellow petticoat and a green gown.