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122 Journa I of A merican Folk-L ore.

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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