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Old 09-04-2008, 09:45 AM   #19
dar512
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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl View Post
I thought it was a tuft of grass..?
Which is why the pictures in nursery rhymes books always have her outside
Ah. You may be right. Just looked it up.

Note that: "The names tuffet and hassock are both derived from English names for a small grassy hillock or clump of grass, in use since at least the sixteenth century."
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