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They proceeded to Goosey Goosey Gander and the Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe, and then Betty hid the books and Tuppence took an amazingly long time to find each of them, to Betty's great glee, and so the morning passed rapidly away.
N or M Christie, Agatha 1941
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'Maude Sefton has been working Goosey Goosey Gander on a toilet-cover.'
The Two Sides of the Shield Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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As I ran fruitlessly around the garden in hot pursuit, I had a flashback to one of my childhood nursery rhyme books and the tale of Goosey Goosey Gander, which was illustrated by a bonneted goose-herder sporting a stout forked stick.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2010
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