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Nursery Rhyme. CCCLXIX. Paradoxes.
by Anonymous[The following occurs in a MS. of the seventeenth century, in the Sloane Collection, the reference to which I have mislaid.]
The man in the wilderness asked me,
How many strawberries grew in the sea?
I answered him, as I thought good,
As many as red herrings grew in the wood.