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Says the pieman to Simple Simon,
“Show me first your penny.”
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,

“Indeed I have not any.”

Simple Simon went a-fishing
For to catch a whale:

All the water he had got
Was in his mother’s pail!

LIX.

THERE was a little man,

And he had a little gun,

And he went to the brook,

And he shot a little rook ;

And he took it home

To his old wife Joan,

And told her to make up a fite,

While he went back

To fetch the little drake ;

But when he got there,

The drake was fled for fear;
And, like an old novice, he turned back again,

BRYAN O’LIN and his wife and wife’s mother,

They all went over a bridge together:

The bridge was broken, and they all fell in,
“The deuce go with all!” quoth Bryan O’Lin.