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<h4 class = "headline"> BABY’S TROTTING SONG</h4>       Come, see how the ladies ride, All so pretty, all so gay, In their beauty, in their pride, Down Broadway; Prancing horses silver shod, All so pretty, all so gay; Princely feathers bend and nod, Down Broadway. <ANTIMG src = "images/pic21_daintily.png" width-OBS="11" height-OBS="134" alt = "DAINTILY" title = "DAINTILY">   <ANTIMG src = "images/pic21_roughly.png" width-OBS="39" height-OBS="137" alt = "ROUGHLY" title = "ROUGHLY"> Jiggety-jog, jiggety-jog, Over the mountain, through the bog— That’s the way the farmers go, Hear the news and see the show; Pumpkins round strapped on behind, Eggs in baskets, too, you’ll find, Soon to change for calico— That’s the way the farmers go.   <ANTIMG src = "images/pic21_teabell.png" width-OBS="28" height-OBS="165" alt = "TEA-BELL ACCOMPANIMENT" title = "TEA-BELL ACCOMPANIMENT"> Bells a-jingle, fingers tingle, Ditto toes, likewise nose. The wind doth blow, And all the snow Around doth scatter; Our teeth they chatter, But that’s no matter— The song rings clear With a Happy New Year, And never a mutter, As we fly in our cutter.   <ANTIMG src = "images/pic21c.png" width-OBS="167" height-OBS="200" alt = "grandfather and child"> <ANTIMG src = "images/pic21_boston.png" width-OBS="165" height-OBS="22" alt = "TROT TO BOSTON" title = "TROT TO BOSTON"> Jingle, jar, horse car, Leave you near, or take you far. Take a seat upon my lap, Cling on, swing on by the strap; Here a stop, and there a start— Let me off, I’ll take a cart! <ANTIMG src = "images/pic21_boisterous.png" width-OBS="94" height-OBS="11" alt = "BOISTEROUSLY" title = "BOISTEROUSLY"> Sword and pistols by their side, And that’s the way the officers ride! Boots stretched out like a letter V, we belong to the cavalry! Over the hurdles after the hounds, tirra-la! the hunting-horn sounds— Dashaway, slashaway, reckless and fast! Crashaway, smashaway, tumbled at last! <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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