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   I play Tom fool in the middle at school. Sometimes I play polly "pucog" at night. I play tis, cotog, cat and dog and the hen and the flock of chickens at school. I play skittles and pitching halfpence on Sunday.

   

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2. Rhymes

   

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   No 1. Christmas comes but once a year, When it comes it brings good cheer, When it goes it leaves us here, What will I do for the rest of the year. No 2. God made man, Man made money, God made the bee, The Bee made hone God made the rabbit, To run in the grass, The devil made the hound, To catch him in the grass. No 3. I've a bonnet trimed with blue, Why don't you wear it? So I do, Every evening meeting John,

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Anna P. Meehan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan