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Thread #135870 Message #3101450
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
23-Feb-11 - 04:19 PM
Thread Name: Why 'in a pear-tree?'
Subject: RE: Why 'in a pear-tree?'
A sheet with "Twelve Days of Christmas," dated between 1774 and 1825, printer Angus of Newcastle, has the usual complement-
partridge, turtle doves, french hens, colley birds, gold rings, geese, swans, maids, drummers, pipers, ladies and lords.
Bodleian Collection, Harding B 25(378).
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/ballads/ballads.htm (and then use index).