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" Two legs sat upon three legs, With one leg in his lap ; In comes four legs, And runs away with one leg. Up jumps two legs, Catches up three legs, Throws it after four legs, And makes him bring back one leg. "
The Horace Mann Readers - Page 83
by Walter Lowrie Hervey, Melvin Hix - 1911
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Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the ..., Volume 4

Percy Society - English literature - 1841 - 476 pages
...eyes. CXLV. [ONE LEG IS A LEG OF MUTTON ; TWO LEGS, A MAN ; THREE LEGS, A STOOL ; FOUR LEGS, A DOG.] Two legs sat upon three legs, With one leg in his...legs, And runs away with one leg. Up jumps two legs, Catches up three legs, Throws it after four legs, And makes him bring back one leg. CXLVI. As I was...
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Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages ...

Percy Society - English literature - 1841 - 468 pages
...eyes. CXLV. [ONE LEG IS A LEG OF MUTTON ; TWO LEGS, A MAN ; THREE LEGS, A STOOL ; FOUR LEGS, A DOG.] Two legs sat upon three legs, With one leg in his...legs, And runs away with one leg. Up jumps two legs, Catches up three legs, Throws it after four legs, And makes him bring back one leg. CXLVI. As I was...
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The Early Naval Ballads of England, Volume 2, Issue 2

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Ballads, English - 1841 - 434 pages
...eyes. CXLV. [ONE LEG IS A LEG OF MUTTON ; TWO LEGS, A MAN ; THREE LEGS, A STOOL ; FOUR LEGS, A DOC.] Two legs sat upon three legs, With one leg in his...legs, And runs away with one leg. Up jumps two legs, Catches up three legs, Throws it after four legs, And makes him bring back one leg. CXLVI. As I was...
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The Nursery Rhymes of England: Obtained Principally from Oral Tradition

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Counting-out rhymes - 1843 - 332 pages
...pair. CLXXIX. [ONE LEG is A LEO OP MUTTON; TWO I.EUS, A MAN; THRKE LEGS, A STOOL; FOUR LEGS, A DOU.] Two legs sat upon three legs, With one leg in his...legs, And runs away with one leg. Up jumps two legs, Catches up three legs, Throws it after four legs, And makes him bring back one leg. CLXXX. As I was...
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The Book of Nursery Rhymes Complete: From the Creation of the World to the ...

Nursery rhymes - 1846 - 266 pages
...fair. 125. [OWE LEG IS A LEG OF MUTTOH*'; TWO LEGS, A MAN ; THREE LEGS, A STOOL J FOUR LEGS, A DOG.] Two legs sat upon three legs, With one leg in his...legs, And runs away with one leg. Up jumps two legs, Catches up three legs, Throws it after four legs, And makes him bring back one leg. 126. [A BED.] FORMED...
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The Nursery Rhymes of England: Collected Chiefly from Oral Tradition

Nursery rhymes - 1846 - 300 pages
...Thorney fair. cxxvi. LEG IS A LEG OF MUTTON ; TWO LEGS, A MAN ; THREE LEGS, A STOOL ; FOUR LEGS, A DOG.) Two legs sat upon three legs, With one leg in his...legs, And runs away with one leg. Up jumps two legs, Catches up three legs, Throws it after four legs, CXXVII. [A BED.] FORMED long ago, yet made to-day,...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1887 - 678 pages
...be read to me during my childhood from a book called ' Nursery Rhymes ' as follows: — Two lega aat upon three legs With one leg in his lap. In comes four lega, Runa away with one leg, Up jumps two legs, Snatches up three lega, Throws it after four legs,...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1887 - 678 pages
...words used to be read to me during my childhood from a book called ' Nursery Rhymes ' as follows: — Two legs sat upon three legs With one leg in his lap. In comes four legs, Runs away with one leg, Up jumps two legs, Snatches up three legs, Throws it after four legs, And makes...
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Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, Volume 59

1882 - 858 pages
...the way — I fancy in Price's book, but cannot be certain — I stumbled upon my old nursery friend, 'Two legs sat upon three legs, with one leg in his lap ; in came four legs, caught up one leg,' &c. I had never imagined it so venerable, and shall look upon it...
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Old Nurse's Book of Rhymes, Jingles and Ditties

Charles Henry Bennett - Drawing - 1858 - 82 pages
...none, Fa, la, la, la, lal, de ; And so the poor stone was left all alone, Fa, la, la, la, lal, de. legs sat upon three legs, With one leg in his lap;...legs, And runs away with one leg ; Up jumps two legs, Catches up three legs, Throws it after four legs, And makes him bring back one leg. girl in the lane...
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