The World’s Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia in 15 Volumes. 1906.
Nursery RhymesSimple Simon
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Going to the fair.
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
“Let me taste your ware.”
“Show me first your penny.”
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
“Indeed, I have not any.”
For to catch a whale.
All the water he had got
Was in his mother’s pail!