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1/6: On Epiphany (=Twelfth Day or Old Christmas Day) in Tenby, the wren
hunters carried a live wren in a box, on a pole, from house to house.
Oh what will you do there? says Milder to Melder
Oh what will you do there? says the younger to the elder.
Oh I cannot tell, says Festel to Fose.
To shoot the cutty wren, said John the Red Nose,
To shoot the cutty wren, said John the Red Nose.
"The Cutty Wren," Gambit Book Of Popular Verse, Geof Grigson
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