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Unread 04-26-2012, 10:01 AM
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HELP. I can't stop!

With pig/jig, this one seemed obvious.

Mother Goose Pastiche

To market, to market, to buy a fat pig.
Three tailless mice, as blind as a bat.
Bad Johnny, to try to drown the poor cat!
Old King Cole in an elegant wig.
Home again, home again, jiggy jig.
Here comes the fine lady – take off your hat!
"I frightened a little mouse (or was it a rat)?"
Jack Horner pulled out a plum, not a fig.
Little Boy Blue is asleep – let him lie.
Violets are blue, roses are red.
Hear the cat make his old fiddle sob!
Humpty Dumpty – poor egg had to die!
The dish and the spoon in their nuptial bed.*
Tom, Tom seeks a pig-pen to rob.

*There is some controversy as to whether "the dish ran away with the spoon" means "the dish stole the spoon" or "the dish eloped with the spoon." I prefer the latter more romantic interpretation.

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