Nursery Rhyme. CXC. Riddles.

    Made in London,
    Sold at York,
    Stops a bottle
    And is a cork.

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Nursery Rhyme. CXCI. Riddles.

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Nursery Rhyme. CCIII. Riddles.

        [An egg.]

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Nursery Rhyme. CXCVIII. Riddles.

        [A plum-pudding.]

    Flour of England, fruit of Spain,
    Met together in a shower of rain;
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