Wee Willie Winkie

Wee Willie Winkie
a character in a traditional nursery rhyme. The words are:
Wee Willie Winkie runs through the town,
Upstairs and downstairs in his nightgown,
Rapping at the window, crying through the lock,
Are the children all in bed, for now it’s eight o’clock?

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