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Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun, Up stairs and doon stairs in lis nicht-goun, Tirlin' at the window, cryin' at the lock, "Are the weans in their bed? for it's now ten o'clock."
Wee Willie Winkie rins through the toun, Up stairs and doon stairs in lis nicht-goun, Tirlin' at the window, cryin' at the lock, "Are the weans in their bed? for it's now ten o'clock."
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- William Miller (identity unresolved)
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 55 · quotation 15 · William Miller · Willie Winkie.
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