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Terrible Infant, A

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I recollect a nurse call'd Ann,         Who carried me about the grass,     And one fine day a fine young man         Came up, and kiss'd the pretty lass.     She did not make the least objection!         Thinks I, "Aha!     When I can talk I'll tell Mamma"         And that's my earliest recollection.

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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"

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