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‘What’s become of your stag-hounds?’ etc.

‘They swelled and they died; mither,’ etc.

‘Jacky, my son,’ written out by Miss F. J. Adams, a Devonshire lady, and derived by her from her Devonshire nurse, sixty or seventy years ago. (Rev. S. Baring-Gould.)

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‘Where hast thou been to-day, Jacky, my son?

Where hast thou been to-day, my honey man?’

‘Oh, I’ve been a courting, mother, make my bed soon,

For I am sick to the heart, fain would lie down.’

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