Twas the twenty-ninth of May, 'twas a holiday
A Dorsetshire version.
“'Twas the twenty-ninth of May, 'twas a holiday,
Four and twenty tailors set out to hunt a snail;
The snail put forth his horns, and roared like a bull,
Away ran the tailors, and catch the snail who wull.”
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