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Nursery Rhyme. LXIX. Tales.

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A dog and a cock,         A journey once took,             They travell'd along till 'twas late;         The dog he made free         In the hollow of a tree,             And the cock on the boughs of it sate.         The cock nothing knowing,         In the morn fell a crowing,             Upon which comes a fox to the tree;         Says he, I declare,         Your voice is above,             All the creatures I ever did see.         Oh! would you come down         I the fav'rite might own,             Said the cock, there's a porter below;         If you will go in,         I promise I'll come down.             So he went - and was worried for it too.

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