Re: Thirty days...

[Barb Weidner <mpd004@MAIL.CONNECT.MORE.NET>]

I also knew it a little differently.  Here are two versions:

Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
February has twenty-eight alone.
All the rest have thirty-one.
Except in leap year.  That's the time
When February's days are twenty-nine.

from <The Tall Book of Mother Goose>,  Harper & Row, c1942

Also, Johnson's fourth edition of <Anthology of Children's Literature> has
this one:

Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Excepting February alone,
And that has twenty- eight days clear
And twenty-nine in each leap year.

I recite this poem numerous times in my head throughout each year, but I
apparently have these two versions mixed in my version.

Barb 8-)

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