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 BY 
 
 miss Folly ^ Blaster Tommy. 
 
 YORK: 
 ,). Kcridrew, Frinter, CoUici'gatc^ 
 
This man cries Muffins, eve and morn 
 And you^ll of them partake ; 
 
 But if to learn your book you scorn. 
 You don't deserve a cake. 
 
B^iss Polly «& m^/y.^.^-- Tommy's 
 
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 BIRDS AND ..i 
 
 J-* i>' i-J i-J O , 
 
 
 
 POLLY and CANARY BIRD. 
 
 Polly be qiiietj let the Canary sing. 
 It can't hurt you poor innocent thing. 
 Nature has forni'd us to unite in love 
 Go you to school and don't it move. 
 
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 RIDDLE. 
 
 WHEN mortals are involv'd in ills, 
 
 I sing with mournful voice ; 
 Ifmirth their hearts with gladness fills, 
 
 I celebrate their joys. 
 And as the lark with warbling throat. 
 
 Ascends upon the wing ; 
 So I lift up my cheerful note, 
 
 And as I mount I sing^ 
 
The HAWK. 
 
 Tho' sharp thine eye and feathers fine 
 How cruel 'tis on Birds to dine ! 
 But says the farmer with a sneer, 
 I wish I had more of them here ; 
 If all loved corn, and none ate meat. 
 We too might soon want bread to eat. 
 
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 RIDDLE. 
 
 My back is bare, 
 My belly thin. 
 
 My guts are all 
 Without my skin, 
 
 I'm often scrap'd. 
 But never fill'd, 
 
 As many have 
 Oft times beheld. 
 
Four teeth I have, 
 But got no tongue. 
 
 Yet when I spea,k^ 
 Please old and young ; 
 
 Mv voice it is 
 A pleasing sound. 
 
 Which makes them off; 
 To trip it round. 
 
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 PEACOCK and WREN. 
 
 The Peacock of his feathers proud. 
 Spreads them and stmts before the 
 
 crowd, 
 The Httle Wren tho' not so gay. 
 Sings very fine upon the spray, 
 In these two Birds we may descry. 
 The pleasures of the ear and eye. 
 
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 RIDDLE. 
 
 Tho' I both foal 
 
 And dirty am, 
 And black as pitch can be, 
 
 There's many a lady 
 
 That will come 
 And by the hand lake me. 
 
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 ROBIN RED-BREAST. 
 
 Alia in Autumn sweetly sings, 
 
 Hiinnocenee makes hi;ibe!;,;'d 
 i oi It IS said, tho- never p.-oy'd 
 That with oak leaves he was so good 
 M to cover the children in the woo .' 
 
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 RIDDLE 
 
 HOW many hundreds for my sake 
 
 have died ! 
 What frauds and villanies have not 
 
 been tri'd ? 
 And all the grandeur which my race 
 
 adorns 
 Is like the Rose beset around with 
 
 thorns ; 
 
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 J- /%^ 
 
 Nay, when possess'd, such your en^ 
 
 joj^ments are, 
 I to my owners trouble bring and 
 
 care, 
 Ev'n they by whom I am so highly 
 
 priz'd. 
 If good, are hated, and if bad, de- 
 
 spis'd, 
 Thus, 'tvvixt the plague of getting 
 
 me and losing. 
 By some Tm thought not worth a 
 
 wise man's choosin^j. 
 
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 PxVRROT. 
 
 Most words tlie Parrot soon can say, 
 And as to feathers none so gay, 
 liiis chattering bird so prates away, 
 And cries, " Poll's sick," alack a day ! 
 Resemblinsc those, who ifo to school. 
 Like her, delight to play the fool. 
 
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 KIDDLE. 
 
 Made of two bodies joiii'd. 
 Without foot or hand. 
 
 And yet yon will find 
 I can }>ot!\ run and stand 
 
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 BLACK BIRD. 
 
 Soon ns the day begins to clawn^ 
 The Black Bird's notes sakite the morn 
 In artless tuneful pleasing lays. 
 He loud proclaims his maker's praise. 
 Let every Child his praise unite. 
 In doing good from morn to ni^^^ht. 
 
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 RIDDLE. 
 
 We dwell in cottapes of f^traw, 
 And labour much for little gains, 
 
 Sweet meat from us our owners, draw, 
 And then with death reward our 
 pains. 
 
 J. Kendrcw, Frinfcv, York-