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Meal-porridge hot,
 * Meal-porridge cold,

Meal-porridge in a pot,
 * Nine days old.

Beef and bacon boiled in a hat; In four letters spell me that.
 * Ans.—T-h-a-t

Higgledy-piggledy,
 * Here we lie;

Picked and plucked,
 * And put in a pie.
 * Ans.—Pigeons.

LANCASHIRE RHYMES.

This is often quoted by those who, having lost a wager, do not wish to pay, on the ground that no stakes had been deposited.

WEATHER RHYMES.

red the sun begins his race, Expect that rain will fall apace.