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Simon’s a simpleton: what does that mean? He can add and subtract, but can’t do long division? Off to the American college goes he!

Simple Simon met a pieman,
Going to the fair;
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
Let me taste your ware.

Says the pieman to Simple Simon,
Show me first your penny;
Says Simple Simon to the pieman,
Indeed I have not any.

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