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Little Miss Muffet

   Little Miss Muffet 

   Sat on a tuffet, 

Eating her curds and whey: 

   There came a little spider, 

   Who sat down beside her, 

And frightened Miss Muffet away. 

Baring-Gould, Sabine. A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes. Illus. by Members of the Birmingham Art School under the direction of A. J. Gaskin. London, England: Methuen, 1895, p. 137. No. LXXIII in Nursery Jingles section


Little Miss Muffet 

Sat on a tuffet, 

Eating her curds and whey; 

There came a big spider, 

Who sat down beside her 

And frightened Miss Muffet away. 

Baring-Gould, William S. and Cecil Baring-Gould, Eds. The Annotated Mother Goose: Nursery Rhymes Old and New. New York: Bramhall House, 1962, p. 114. No. 141


Little Miss Muffet 

Sat on a tuffet, 

Eating her curds and whey; 

There came a big spider, 

Who sat down beside her 

And frightened Miss Muffet away. 

Opie, Iona and Peter Opie, Comps. The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes. Revised. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1977, p. 323. No. 369



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