TALES. 59

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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 Scuitires 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.

LXXXIX.

THERE was a jolly miller
Lived on the River Dee;
He looked upon his pillow,
And there he saw a flea.
“Oh, Mr. Flea,
You have been biting. me,
And you must die.”
So he cracked his bones
Upon the stones,
And there he let him lie,

XC.
LITTLE Tom Tittlemouse
Lived in a bell-house;
The bell-house broke,
And Tom Tittlemouse woke,