There he found a very good home in a box of grain.

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Mistress Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells, and cockle shells,
And pretty maids all in a row.


MISTRESS MARY

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Mary.

She had no brothers and sisters, but she had a dear, good father and mother.

Mary always went to school with her little friends.

She played with them after school and on Saturdays.