The Farmer's Boy plays his pipe as the lambs dance around his shepherd's crook, c1881. 'When I was a farmer, a Farmer's Boy, I used to keep my master's lambs'. From "The Farmer's Boy" written and illustrated by Randolph Caldecott. [Originally published in 1881 as part of Caldecott's 'Picture Books' series]

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