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1. Farmer and Three Sons

   

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   There was an old farmer & his wife once often there was & often there will be & he had 3 sons Jack Tom & Bill & they had nothing to ate on the land. Bill said he'd go seek his fortune & he asked his mother for a cake & a cock & she gave 'em to him & the mother asked him would he rather have the whole of it would her blessing on the half of it would her curse so Bill said he'd have the whole of it with her curse so she got out on the top of the ditch & she says "My curse go high & my curse go low & my curse go would you wherever you go so he went on till he came to a little bridge. When he came to the

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   Roman script

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   • James Coleman