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"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo."
Bill Lucey: Remembering Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, on his 200th Birthday Bill Lucey 2012
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"Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo."
Bill Lucey: Remembering Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, on his 200th Birthday Bill Lucey 2012
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Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo
My 2 favorite "nice" songs. Ann Althouse 2009
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Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo ....
Moo M-mv 2005
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Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo....
Archive 2005-02-01 M-mv 2005
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Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo
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As the very first sentence informs us, he is not truly of the family into which he was born -- there he is "baby tuckoo," the cuckoo's fledgling in the cowbird's nest.
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Here, then, the Virgin's colors and green and red, the strand of seaweed and the flame upon the cheek, are fused with the bird imagery that continues throughout the book from "baby tuckoo" on the first page to Dedalus, the winged artificer, who is evoked in the final sentence.
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Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo ...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo ...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Joyce, James, 1882-1941 1922
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