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Mother Goose
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Petra Mathers
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elogo bottom Mother Goose: A Scholarly Exploration
MOTHER GOOSE
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For Want of a Nail the Shoe Was Lost

Big Consequences - Little Causes

ECLIPSE Image Number 00970000

Here, the king walks delicately along the length of an exaggerated horseshoe nail, lending clear indication that the nail, though tiny in reality, carries great weight when a kingdom is held in the balance.



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