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"All hot! all hot! come buy!
Ten a penny is the price, / And if you my chestnuts try, / You'll declare they're very nice. / See how brightly burns my fire! / Hear the chestnuts hiss and crack! / Better nuts you can't desire / Than these beauties, big and black.
"All hot! -- if you are cold, / Have a pennyworth of heat, / Something nice and warm to hold, / Something nice and warm to eat. / Munch your chestnuts up, and then, / If your toes want warming too, / Say, 'I'll have another ten, / Just to warm me through and through."
So the cheerful chestnut dame / To each chilly passer calls, / As she roasts above the flame / Fine round nuts like floury balls. / Hungry children soon draw near, / If a penny they have got, / And with warmth and food to cheer, / "They" become "all hot! all hot!"