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Thread #126210 Message #2804002
Posted By: Jim Dixon
05-Jan-10 - 11:07 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: 'As I went down the new-cut road...'
Subject: RE: tinker & a toad connected to Billy Patterson LYR?
From The William and Mary Quarterly (Williamsburg, Va.: Institute of Early American History and Culture, 1964), page 86:
As I was going 'long the new cut road I met a 'possum and a toad, Every time the toad would jump The 'possum hid behind a stump.