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Journal of American Folk-Lore.

Go tell him when all this work is done,
Rosemary and thyme
To come to me for his cambric shirt,
And he shall be a true lover of mine."[1]

  1. ↑ Contributed by Mrs. E. M. Backus, as obtained from recitation in Columbia County, Ga.

William Wells Newell.

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