A cow and a calf
This old nursery rhyme is called “A cow and a calf” — enjoy your reading!
“A cow and a calf,
An ox and a half,
Forty good shillings and three;
Is that not enough tocher
For a shoe-maker's daughter,
A bonny lass with a black e'e?”
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