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Six beetles against the wall,

Close by an old woman’s apple-stall ;

Five puppies of our dog Ball,

Who daily for their breakfast call ;

Four horses stuck in a bog,

‘Three monkeys tied to a clog;

Two pudding-ends would choke a dog,

With a gaping, wide-mouthed, waddling frog.

CCCCXIII.

A STRING of children, hand in hand, stand ina row. A child
(A) stands in front of them, as leader ; two other children (4 and
C) form an arch, each holding both the hands of the other.

A. Draw a pail of water,
For my lady’s daughter ;