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A book for boys and girls

or, Country Rhimes for Children. By J. B. [John Bunyan]

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Bells have wide mouths and tongues, but are too weak,
Have they not help, to sing, or talk, or speak,
But if you move them they will mak't appear,
By speaking they'l make all the Town to hear.
When Ringers handle them with Art and Skill,
They then the ears of their Observers fill,
With such brave Notes, they ting and tang so well
As to out-strip all with their ding, dong, Bell.