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 A
 HISTORY
 OF
 NURSERY
 RHYMES


                                       BY
                                 PERCY B. GREEN



                     LONDON
              GREENING & CO., LTD.
                 20, CECIL COURT
               CHARING CROSS ROAD
                      1899

                 Now Reissued by
               Singing Tree Press
 1249 Washington Blvd., Detroit, Michigan. 1968




Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 68-31082


Transcriber's Note:

    Minor typographical errors have been corrected without note, whilst
    significant amendments are noted at the end of the text.

    Archaic and dialect spellings remain as printed.

    Greek text has been transliterated and is shown between {braces}.

    The oe ligature is shown as [oe]. The + character has been used to
    represent the cross symbols used in Chapter IX.




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