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    The Maid and the Magpie An Interesting Tale Founded on Facts
    The Maid and the Magpie An Interesting Tale Founded on Facts
    The Maid and the Magpie An Interesting Tale Founded on Facts
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    The Maid and the Magpie An Interesting Tale Founded on Facts

    By Charles Moreton

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    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      The Maid and the Magpie An Interesting Tale Founded on Facts - Charles Moreton

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Maid and the Magpie, by Charles Moreton

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      Title: The Maid and the Magpie

      An Interesting Tale Founded on Facts

      Author: Charles Moreton

      Release Date: July 30, 2007 [eBook #22181]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE MAID AND THE MAGPIE***

      E-text prepared by Janet Blenkinship

      and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

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      FRONTISPIECE.

      Verse 4

      THE

      MAID and the MAGPIE

      an Interesting Tale

      Founded on Facts

      By Charles Moreton

      LONDON.

      Published by G. Stevens, 10 Borough Road, Southwark.

      Verse 16

      THE

      MAID

      AND THE

      MAGPIE.

      1

      At Palaiseau, there liv’d a maid,

      In form and features mild;

      The stings of conscience never prey’d,

      On this devoted child.

      2

      She serv’d a wealthy farmer there,

      An honest

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