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THE FOX AND THE FARMER. 187 The grey Goose ran right round the haystack. “Oh, ho!” said the Fox, “you are very fat; You'll do very well to ride on my back, From this into yonder town, heigho!” The farmer’s wife she jumped out of bed, And out of the window she popped her head; “Oh, husband! oh, husband! the Geese are all dead, For the Fox has been through the town, heigho!” The farmet he loaded his pistol with leaa, And shot the old rogue of a Fox through the head; “Ah, ha!” said the farmer, “I think you re quite dead,
