Nature
Twas the twenty-ninth of May, 'twas a holiday
From The Nursery Rhymes of England, collected by J. O. Halliwell (London: Warne; first ed. 1842; this printing 1886)
'Twas the twenty-ninth of May, 'twas a holiday,
Four and twenty tailors set out to hunt a snail;
The snail put forth his horns, and roared like a bull,
Away ran the tailors, and catch the snail who wull.
Codex Note
Halliwell's class: Natural History. [A Dorsetshire version.]
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