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Jack Sprat

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Jack Sprat

Jack Sprat Could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean; And so betwixt them both, you see, They lick'd the platter clean. Composition date is unknown; collected in "Mother Goose: The Original Volland Edition" Illustration by Frederick Richardson 1. See The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes, ed. Iona and Peter Opie (1951\; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1966), no. 264, p. 238.