 THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT This is the farmer sowing his corn, That kept the cock that crowed in the morn, That waked the priest all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with...  Child Classics - Page 41by Georgia Alexander, Grace Alexander - 1909Full view - About this book
 | Sir Frank Thomas Marzials - 1908 - 600 pages
...Santa Claus, or to .read poetry. No cow ever jumped over the moon for them ; they never heard of " the cow with the crumpled horn that tossed the dog that worried the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built." Mr. Gradgrind's children were... | |
 | Leota Swem, Rowena Sherwood - Readers (Primary) - 1908 - 136 pages
...This is the cat that caught the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built. This is the dog that worried the cat that caught the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built. Jack built the house. The malt lay in the house. The rat ate the... | |
 | 1908 - 636 pages
...to the end of chapter? Why stop at "the rat that ate the malt," when we go back just as logically to "the cow with the crumpled horn that tossed the dog, that worried the (said) rat," or further back still to the wedding at the end of the chapter, after which it is to be... | |
 | Georgia Alexander - Counting-out rhymes - 1909 - 128 pages
...morn That waked the priest all shaven and shorn That married the man all tattered and torn That kissed the maiden all forlorn That milked the cow with the...dog That worried the cat That caught the rat That lay in the house that Jack built. This is the farmer sowing his corn That kept the cock that crowed... | |
 | Charles Maurice Stebbins, Mary H. Coolidge - Readers - 1909 - 146 pages
...the horns of the cow crumpled ? Tliis cow stood in the bam that Jack built. She is not in the barn. This is the maiden all forlorn That milked the cow...horn That tossed the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. (V . Who is by the tree ? A... | |
 | Charles Welsh - Children's literature - 1909 - 492 pages
...That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. 7. This is the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow...horn, That tossed the dog, That worried the cat, That killed the rat, That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. 8. This is the man all tattered... | |
 | English literature - 1909 - 638 pages
...And this is the Priest, all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the...horn, That tossed the dog that worried the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built. "Strange, by my faith !" the... | |
 | Recitations - 1909 - 640 pages
...And this is the Priest, all shaven and shorn, That married the man all tattered and torn, That kissed the maiden all forlorn, That milked the cow with the...horn, That tossed the dog that worried the cat that killed the rat that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built. "Strange, by my faith !" the... | |
 | Joseph Robinette - Nursery rhymes - 1979 - 36 pages
...the DOG a flip. He whines.) "... that worried the cat. That killed the rat, That ate the malt. That lay in the house that Jack built. . . . This is the maiden all forlorn . . ." (The MAlDEN enters with a sigh and begins to milk the COW.) "... that milked the cow with the... | |
 | International relations - 1927 - 638 pages
...Government of Russia what the cow with the crumpled horn was to the house that Jack built: "This is the cow with the crumpled horn That tossed the dog That worried the cat That killed the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built." This of course does not accord... | |
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