Thirty days hath November,
April, June, and September,
February hath xxviii alone,
And all the rest have xxxi.

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Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; February eight-and-twenty all alone, And all the rest have thirty-one: Unless that leap-year doth combine, And give to February twenty-nine. | Return from Parnassus (London, 1606). | Thirty days hath September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one Excepting February alone: Which hath but twenty-eight, in fine, Till leap year gives it twenty-nine. | Thirty days has September, April, June, and November; All the rest have thirty-one, Except for second month alone: To which we donate twenty-eight, 'Till leap year brings us twenty-nine. | Common in New England States. | Fourth, eleventh, ninth, and sixth, Thirty days to each affix; Every other thirty-one, Except the second month alone. | Common in Chester Co., Pa., among the Friends; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 524

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