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In My Nursery

by Laura E. Richards

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My Uncle Jehoshaphat

My Uncle Jehoshaphat had a pig,—
  A pig of high degree;
And he always wore a brown scratch wig,
  Most beautiful for to see.

My Uncle Jehoshaphat loved this pig,
  And the piggywig he loved him;
And they both jumped into the lake one day,
  To see which best could swim.

My Uncle Jehoshaphat he swam up,
  And the piggywig he swam down;
And so they both did win the prize,
  Which the same was a velvet gown.

My Uncle Jehoshaphat wore one half,
  And the piggywig wore the other;
And they both rode to town on the brindled calf,
  To carry it home to its mother.

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