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+ + +Patty the Milkmaid was going to market carrying her milk in a
+ Pail on her head. As she went along she began calculating what
+ she would do with the money she would get for the milk. "I'll buy
+ some fowls from Farmer Brown," said she, "and they will lay eggs
+ each morning, which I will sell to the parson's wife.
+ With the money that I get from the sale of these eggs I'll buy myself a new
+ dimity frock and a chip hat; and when I go to market, won't all
+ the young men come up and speak to me! Polly Shaw will be that
+ jealous; but I don't care.
I shall just look at her and toss my
+ head like this. As she spoke she tossed her head back, the Pail
+ fell off it, and all the milk was spilt. So she had to go home
+ and tell her mother what had occurred."Ah, my child," said the mother,