"Nancy Young" > wrote in message
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> Dora wrote:
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>> Here's an English nursery rhyme I remember from my childhood. Never
>> could get past the idea of eating those birds:
>>
>> Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full of rye,
>> Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie.
>> When the pie was opened the birds began to sing,
>> Oh wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king?
>> The king was in his counting house counting out his money,
>> The queen was in the parlour eating bread and honey
>> The maid was in the garden hanging out the clothes,
>> When down came a blackbird and pecked off her nose!
>
> Someone should write a book with a theme around that rhyme!
> A mystery.

That was a well known nursery rhyme for me when I was a child
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