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    Chenodia Or, the Classical Mother Goose
    Chenodia Or, the Classical Mother Goose
    Chenodia Or, the Classical Mother Goose
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    Chenodia Or, the Classical Mother Goose

    By Jacob Bigelow

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Chenodia Or, the Classical Mother Goose - Jacob Bigelow

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      Title: Chenodia

      The Classic Mother Goose

      Author: Jacob Bigelow

      Release Date: May 10, 2009 [EBook #28745]

      Language: English

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      . 1806 was Bigelow’s Harvard graduation year.

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      ΧΗΝῼΔΙΑ,

      OR

      THE CLASSICAL MOTHER GOOSE.

      Argutos inter strepere anser olores.

      CAMBRIDGE:

      PRINTED (NOT PUBLISHED):

      UNIVERSITY PRESS.

      1871.

      University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co.,

      Cambridge.

      PREFACE.

      The work familiarly known as "Mother Goose’s

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