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CHILD STORIES AND PLAY
153

There was a man, and he had nought,
And robbers came to rob him;
He crept up to the chimney-pot
And then they thought they had him.


But he got down on t'other side,
And then they could not find him;
He ran fourteen miles in fifteen days,
And never looked behind him.