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COMIC SONGS,

BY

THOMAS HUDSON.

COLLECTION THE FIRST.

"Some rhyme a neighbour's name to'lash;
"Some rhyme, vain thought, for needfu' cash ;
"Some rhyme to court the countra clash

"And raise a din;

"For me, an aim I never fash,—

"I rhyme for fun.

BURNS.

ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL, AND THE
STAMP OF ICE.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR THOMAS HUDSON,
6, Museum Street, Bloomsbury ;

To be had of SIMKIN and MARSHALL, Stationers' Court;
ONWHYN, Catherine Street, Strand; TIERNAY, corner of Russell
Court; and all respectable Booksellers.

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Copies of the Comic Songs, (with Music) "L, A, W, Law!"-
"Physic"-"London Shop-Windows"-"Barney Brallaghan,'
"The Monument and St. Paul's,"" Widow Mahoney,"-" Ad-
vertising for a Wife," ""House of Commons,"-Chapter of
Wants,""Nothing!"-"The Parson's Clerk," "Old Father
Thames"-"Reform," "John Bull is not John Bull now"-
"The King who reigns in the Hearts of his People,"-" The
Cork Leg," and "Follow the Drum," may be had of T. HUDSON,
6, Museum Street, Bloomsbury.

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BODLEIN

11 DEC 1959

COMIC SONGS.

THE OLD WOMAN AND HER CATS.

A VERY old woman once liv'd by herself,
In a garret so monstrously high,

Her cupboard was lined, well stored was each shelf,
And in a sly pocket was plenty of pelf,

To get a drop of liquor when dry.

But the rats and the mice through the holes,
Came into the cupboard in shoals,

So free exercising their gums,

On cheese-parings, candle-ends, and crumbs;
And though it a strange thing may seem,
They wash'd their tails in the cream,

Which was shocking bad manners you'll say,

Alas, and alack-a-day!

A curious moral I make,
Listen great and small,

Better have some crumbs for the mice to take,
Than to have no crumbs at all.

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