Mythology & Folklore
I went into my grandmother's garden
From The Nursery Rhymes of England, collected by J. O. Halliwell (London: Warne; first ed. 1842; this printing 1886)
I went into my grandmother's garden,
And there I found a farthing.
I went into my next door neighbour's,
There I bought a pipkin and a popkin--
A slipkin and a slopkin,
A nailboard, a sailboard,
And all for a farthing.
Codex Note
Halliwell's class: Riddles. [A tobacco-pipe.]
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