When this rhyme is recited, it doesn't seem to make much sense. But when you read it, with punctuation, it's perfectly clear!

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This rhyme and illustration can be found in The Real Mother Goose (1916), illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright.

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Read by Allyson Hester of Athens, Georgia for Librevox.