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In the song "Twelve Days of Christmas" a person is gifted with many legged creatures. In fact, in only one departure from living creatures does the gift giver give the receiver a non-legged item, the 5 golden rings. In total, the number of legs that are given to the receiver in the song is 648. There is an argument to be made that as the eight maids were "a'milking" then you should include the cows legs, which would make it 808 legs. The maids would be sitting on three legged stools. If those are also included the total would be 928 legs!
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The gifts are 12 lords a-leaping 11 ladies dancing 10 pipers piping 9 drummers drumming 8 maids a-milking 7 swans a-swimming 6 geese a-laying 5 gold rings 4 colly birds 3 French hens 2 turtle doves 1 partridge in a pear tree which totals 78 gifts, assuming that the partidge in the pear tree is counted as one single gift.
In the song "The twelve days of Christmas" my true love gave to me a total of 78 things.