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Pease porridge hot,Pease porridge cold,Pease porridge in the potNine days old.I am going to tell you the story we were told behind that nursery rhyme by a tour guide at Fort Niagara.Seems that Ft. Niagara was built and occupied by the French to keep watch over it's Canadian territories in the New World. At that time law and the French Army dictated that every man serve seven years in the militia.
