Nursery Rhyme. DXXIX. Natural History.

    Johnny Armstrong kill'd a calf,
    Peter Henderson got the half;
    Willy Wilkinson got the head,
    Ring the bell, the calf is dead!

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Nursery Rhyme. DLXV. Natural History.

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Nursery Rhyme. DLXXXIII. Natural History.

    The Cock. Lock the dairy door,
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Nursery Rhyme. DLXXV. Natural History.

    There was an old woman had three cows,
            Rosy, and Colin, and Dun;
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Nursery Rhyme. DLXXXII. Natural History.

            I had a little cow;
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Nursery Rhyme. DLXXXI. Natural History.

    Charley Warley had a cow.
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