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106 In the following the numbers are simply applied to different objects:—

I another, words are chosen in each of the ten lines that contain the words for the numbers from one to ten; they are mostly names of plants, grasses, &c.:—

Some seem merely nonsense rhymes; and others carry on the last syllables of one line to the first of the next:—