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OATS, PEASE, BEANS. This game gives great pleasure to children on account of its different motions. One child stands in the center of the ring, which moves round, singing:

Oats, pease, beans and bar - ley grows, Oats, pease, beans and bar - ley grows; You, nor I, nor no - bod - y knows How oats, pease, beans and bar - ley grows. Thus the far - mer sows his seed, Thus he stands and takes his ease; Stamps his foot and claps his hands, And turns a - round to view his lands: A -

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