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The Big Book of Nursery Rhymes

by Walter Jerrold

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Merchants of London

Hey diddle dinkety, poppety, pet.

The merchants of London they wear scarlet;
Silk in the collar, and gold in hem,
So merrily march the merchantmen.

The Owl in the Oak

THERE was an owl lived in an oak,
  Whiskey, whaskey, weedle;
And all the words he ever spoke
  Were fiddle, faddle, feedle.

A sportsman chanced to come that way,
  Whiskey, whaskey, weedle;
Says he, “I’ll shoot you, silly bird,
  So fiddle, faddle, feedle!”

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