My Sow Has Pigged
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NURSERY GAMES
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Popular Rhymes And Nursery Tales
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.