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Nursery Rhymes
The term nursery rhyme is used for "traditional" poems and songs for young children in Britain and many other countries, but usage only dates from the 19th century and in North America the term "Mother Goose Rhymes", introduced in the mid-1700s, is still often used.
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Jack."
"Last name?"
"Let's leave it at Jack," he said.
"Unfortunately, the online form insists on a last name before it will allow me to move to the next page." I held up the tablet to show him the screen. "How about Jack Spratt? Jack Frost? Jack Sparrow? Jack Horner? Do you have a beanstalk? Do you kill giants? Have you built a house? Are you nimble?"
"How about something not fantasy-based?" With a soft chuckle, he moved closer to study the screen.
"Jack Dawson? Jack Skellington?" I tried to ig
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― To Have and to Heist
― To Have and to Heist
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Spring-Heeled Jack Is In The Lane by Stewart Stafford
Go indoors, children, before dark falls,
A fiend comes hideous and inhumane,
Tell your mother not to answer the door,
For Spring-Heeled Jack is in the lane.
Is it spectre, beast or demon?
A trick of light to fool the brain?
Blue flames spew from hellish maw,
Spring-Heeled Jack growls in the lane.
No one can unsee its monstrous face,
Nor its claws of steel that bloodstain,
Its haunting cackle freezes victims,
Spring-Heeled Jack leaps from t
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