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 The youngster strode along, uttering these words, till he reached a field where a hind was sowing wheat:

This was all his cry. So the sower began to thrash him, and charged him to repeat:

Off the child scampered with these words in his mouth till he reached a churchyard and met a funeral, but he went on with his:

The chief mourner seized and punished him, and bade him repeat:

Away went the boy, and met a dog and a cat going to be hung, but his cry rang out!

The good folk nearly were furious, seized and struck him, charging him to say:

This the poor fellow did, till he overtook a man and a woman going to be married. "Oh! oh!" he shouted: