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Climb by Rope
or Climb by Ladder

Climb by rope,
Or climb by ladder,
Without either,
I'll climb farther.

Notes

According to The Annotated Mother Goose (1962), edited by William and Ceil Baring-Gould, "this is presumably a riddle… the solution may be 'smoke' or 'mist'."

Thanks and Acknowledgements

This rhyme can be found in The Only True Mother Goose Melodies (c. 1843).

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