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Old Mother Hubbard (1918)
 

Synopsis

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"Old Mother Hubbard went to the cupboard to fetch her poor dog a bone": Mother Hubbard offers her dog the bone but he refuses it. "The doggie refused it, but the Government used it": soldiers load artillery shells. "And the Germans made wildly for home": German soldiers run from an explosion. The dog with the complete poem superimposed.