Aunt Kitty's Stories. Various

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      Hickety, pickety, my black hen,

       She lays good eggs for gentlemen;

       Gentlemen come every day,

       To see what my black hen doth lay.

      Dickery, dickery, dare,

       The pig flew up in the air,

       The man in brown soon brought him down.

       Dickery, dickery, dare.

      Driddlety drum, driddlety drum,

       There you see the beggars are come:

       Some are here and some are there,

       And some are gone to Chidley fair.

      A little pig found a fifty dollar note,

       And purchased a hat and a very fine coat,

       With trowsers, and stockings, and shoes;

       Cravat, and shirt-collar, and gold-headed cane;

       Then proud as could be, did he march up the lane,

       Says he, I shall hear all the news.

      This is the way the ladies go—

       Nim, nim, nim.

       This is the way the gentlemen go—

       Trot, trot, trot.

       This is the way the hunters go—

       Gallop, gallop, gallop.

THE MARRIAGE OF COCK ROBIN AND JENNY WREN.

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      It was on a merry time, when Jenny Wren was young,

       So neatly as she danced, and so sweetly as she sung—

      Robin Redbreast lost his heart—he was a gallant bird;

       He doff’d his hat to Jenny, and thus to her he said:—