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JACK AND JILL AND OLD DAME DOB by MOTHER GOOSE

First Line: JACK AND JILL / WENT UP THE HILL
Last Line: AT SEE-SAW ACROSS THE GATE.
Subject(s): ACCIDENTS;

JACK and Jill
Went up the hill,
To fetch a pail of water;
Jack fell down,
And broke his crown,
And Jill came tumbling after.

Then up Jack got,
And home did trot,
As fast as he could caper;
To old Dame Dob,
Who patched his nob
With vinegar and brown paper.

When Jill came in,
How she did grin
To see Jack's paper plaster;
Her mother, vexed,
Did whip her next,
For laughing at Jack's disaster.

Now Jack did laugh
And Jill did cry,
But her tears did soon abate;
Then Jill did say,
That they should play
At see-saw across the gate.





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