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To Make Your Candles Last

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To Make Your Candles Last

Proverb

To Make Your Candles Last - Mama Lisa's House of English Nursery Rhymes, Intro Image

To make your candles last for aye*,
You wives and maids give ear-O!
To put them out's the only way,
Says honest John Boldero.

Notes

*Ever

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This rhyme and illustration can be found in The Real Mother Goose (1916), illustrated by Blanche Fisher Wright.

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