Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles/The robbers

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Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles (c. 1820)
Peter Puzzlecap and Thomas Bewick
The robbers
4528341Gammer Gurton's garland of nursery songs and Toby Tickle's collection of riddles — The robbersc/1820Peter Puzzlecap and Thomas Bewick


THE ROBBERS.

There was a man, and he had nought,
And robbers came to rob him;
He crept up to the chimney top,
And then they thought they had him.

But he got down on t'other side,
And then they could not find him:
He ran fourteen miles in fifteen days,
And never look'd behind him.