 Then came the Holy One, blessed be He ! And killed the Angel of Death, That killed the butcher, That slew the ox, That drank the water, That quenched the fire, That burned the staff, That beat the dog, That bit the cat, That ate the kid That my father...  Early English Poetry, Ballads, and Popular Literature of the Middle Ages ... - Page 5by Percy Society - 1841Full view - About this book
 | Readers - 1898 - 216 pages
...kid. Then came the butcher, and slew the ox. That drank the water, That quenched the fire, That burned the staff, That beat the dog, That bit the cat, That...father bought For two pieces of money : A kid, a kid. BED IN SUMMER. In winter I get up at night And dress by yellow candle-light. In summer quite the other... | |
 | Royal Society of Literature (Great Britain) - English literature - 1893 - 500 pages
...money. [" A kid, a kid," repeated here in version from Jewish Advocate, 1849.] 2. Then came the cat and ate the kid That my father bought For two pieces of money. ["A kid, a kid ! " Repeated in the other version, as above.] 3. Then came the dog and bit the cat That ate the kid,... | |
 | George Edmands Merrill - Bible - 1894 - 340 pages
...and ate the kid That my father bought For two pieces of money : A kid, a kid. Then came the dog and bit the cat That ate the kid that my father bought For two pieces of money : A kid, a kid. But the most extravagant of these tales arose only in the later times, when from the simpler age in... | |
 | George Edmands Merrill - Bible - 1894 - 334 pages
...fashion : A kid, a kid my father bought For two pieces of money : A kid, a kid. Then came the cat and ate the kid That my father bought For two pieces of money : A kid, a kid. Then came the dog and bit the cat That ate the kid that my father bought For two pieces of money :... | |
 | American literature - 1899 - 904 pages
...of money. A kid, a kid. 7— Then came the ox and drank the water That quenched the fire That burned the staff That beat the dog That bit the cat That...kid That my father bought For two pieces of money. À kid, a kid. 8— Then came the butcher and slew the ox That drank the water That quenched the fire... | |
 | Percy B. Green - Mother Goose - 1899 - 258 pages
...of money. Then came the staff and beat the dog that bit the cat, etc. Then came the fire that burned the staff, that beat the dog, that bit the cat, that ate the kid, etc. Then came the water and quenched the fire, that burned the staff, that beat the dog, that bit... | |
 | Percy B. Green - Mother Goose - 1899 - 298 pages
...Child's Game, "Jack's Alive" — Russian Superstition . . . So III. JEWISH RHYMES— "A kid, a kid my father bought for • . / two pieces of money — a kid ! a kid I " — " The house that Jack built " — The Scotch version, " There was an old woman swept her house... | |
 | Bibliography - 1900 - 532 pages
...Haggadah, symbolical of events in the history of the Hebrew nation. The original commences — A kid, a kid my father bought For two pieces of money, A kid, a kid. This has thus been interpreted. The kid — one of the pure animals — denotes the Hebrew ; the father... | |
 | James Francis Hewitt - History, Ancient - 1901 - 762 pages
...Then came the Butcher and slew the Ox That drank the Water That quenched the Fire That burnt the Stick That beat the Dog That bit the Cat That ate the Kid Chat my father bought For two pieces of money. 621 10. This is the Farmer that sowed the corn That... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1905 - 658 pages
...(ii. 503), it would be well to give it a place in ' N. & Q.' The numbers refer to the stanzas : — "The following is the interpretation :— " 1. The kid, which was one of the pure animals, Icnote* the Hebrews. "The father, by whom it was purchased, is ]ehotth,who represents himself as sustaining... | |
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