Nursery Rhyme. DXXXI. Natural History.

    A long-tail'd pig, or a short-tail'd pig,
    Or a pig without e'er a tail,
    A sow-pig, or a boar-pig,
    Or a pig with a curly tail.

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Nursery Rhyme. DVI. Natural History.

        The sow came in with the saddle,
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Nursery Rhyme. DXLII. Natural History.

    Betty Pringle had a little pig,
    Not very little and not very big,
    When he was alive he lived in clover,
    But now he's dead, and that's all over.
    So Billy Pringle he laid down and cried,
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Nursery Rhyme. DLXXX. Natural History.

    The pettitoes are little feet,
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Nursery Rhyme. DLXIX. Natural History.

    Higglepy Piggleby,
        My black hen,
    She lays eggs
        For gentlemen;
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        And sometimes ten,
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