 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
 | Lawrence Elmendorf - Animals - 1919 - 286 pages
...pieces of money : A kid, a kid. 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...father bought For two pieces of money : A kid, a kid. Then came the butcher and slew the ox, That drank the water, That quenched the fire, That burned the... | |
 | Edward Samuel Niles - 1920 - 198 pages
...destroyed the slaughterer that slaughtered 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 kids that father bought with two zozem (gold pieces). ' Here are the plagues that are to disseminate... | |
 | Charles Madison Curry, Erle Elsworth Clippinger - Children - 1921 - 716 pages
...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...father bought For two pieces of money: A kid, a kid." There is an elaborate interpretation of the symbolism of this hymn, going back at least as far as 1731,... | |
 | Harry Grove Wheat - Reading - 1923 - 364 pages
...in the house that Jack built, etc. A kid, a kid, my father bought For two pieces of money. Then came the cat That ate the kid That my father bought For two pieces of money. Then came the dog That bit the cat That ate the kid That my father bought For two pieces of money,... | |
 | Education - 1906 - 518 pages
...two, three, Out goes he." "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." The jingle and nonsense of the above, together with the repetition of the commas appeal to the child's... | |
 | Macleod Yearsley - Fairy tales - 1924 - 266 pages
...1. A kid, a kid, my father bought For two pieces of money ; A kid, a kid. 2. Then came the cat, and ate the kid That my father bought For two pieces of money; A kid, a kid. 3. Then came the dog, and bit the cat, That ate the kid, etc., etc. 4. Then came the staff, and beat... | |
 | Jews - 1926 - 418 pages
...the slaughterer tl:at killed the ox that drank the water that quenched the fire that burned the stick that beat the dog that bit the cat that ate the kid, my father bought for two zuzim. One only kid, one only kid. T 1 The Last of the Samaritans BY WOLFGANG... | |
 | Walter Taylor Field - Books and reading - 1928 - 304 pages
...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...bought For two pieces of money, — A kid, a kid. To the Jews of the Middle Ages this quaint old verse had a religious symbolism. It was called the Haggadah,... | |
 | Jews - 1848 - 564 pages
...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...father bought, For two pieces of money : A kid, a kid. 8- Then came the butcher, and slew the ox, That drank the water, That quenched the fire, That burned... | |
 | Weldon Thornton - Literary Criticism - 1968 - 568 pages
...the slaughterer that killed the ox that drank the water that quenched the fire that burned the stick that beat the dog that bit the cat that ate the kid which my father bought for two zuzim. One only kid, one only kid." Bloom's statement "Justice it means... | |
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