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Popular Rhymes and Nursery Tales

MY SOW HAS PIGGED.

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MY SOW HAS PIGGED.

A game at cards, played now only by children. It is alluded to by Taylor the Water-poet, in his Motto, 12mo. Lond. 1622, and it is also mentioned in Poor Robin's Almanac for 1734. The following distich is used in this game:

Higgory, diggory, digg'd,

My sow has pigg'd.

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