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Nursery Rhyme. CCCLXX. Paradoxes.

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[The conclusion of the following resembles a verse in the nursery history of Mother Hubbard.]         There was an old woman, and what do you think?         She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink:         Victuals and drink were the chief of her diet;         This tiresome old woman could never be quiet.         She went to the baker, to buy her some bread,         And when she came home her old husband was dead;         She went to the clerk to toll the bell,         And when she came back her old husband was well.

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