Dock
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Popular Rhymes And Nursery Tales
Nettle in, dock out,
Dock rub nettle out!
If a person is stung with a nettle, a certain cure will be effected by
rubbing dock leaves over the part, repeating the above charm very
slowly. Mr. Akerman gives us another version of it as current in
Wiltshire:
Out 'ettle, in dock,
Dock zhall ha' a new smock;
'Ettle zhant ha' narrun!