Mistress Mary Quite Contrary

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Mistress Mary, quite contrary
How does your garden grow?
With cockle-shells and silver bells,
And pretty maids all in a row.


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Consider reading this nursery rhyme in verse: L. Frank Baum's Mistress Mary.

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