 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
 | Walter Lowrie Hervey, Melvin Hix - Readers (Elementary) - 1911 - 146 pages
...a kid, a kid. Then came the ox, and drank the water, That put out the fire, That burned the stick, That beat the dog, That bit the cat, That ate the...kid, That my father bought For two pieces of money: eat beat it bit a kid, a kid. bounce bought drank thank Then came the butcher, and killed the ox, That... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - Elocution - 1913 - 330 pages
...bought For two pieces of money: A kid, a kid. Then came the water, and 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 ox, and drank the water, That quenched the fire, That burned the staff, That beat... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - Elocution - 1913 - 328 pages
...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...kid, That my father bought For two pieces of money: Then came the butcher, and slew the ox, That drank the water, That quenched the fire, That burned the... | |
 | Arthur John Newman Tremearne - Folk-lore, Hausa - 1913 - 608 pages
...the butcher, who killed 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, that my father bought for two pieces of money." The learned writer says that one interpretation of this is that Palestine (the kid) is devoured by... | |
 | Kuno Francke, William Guild Howard - English literature - 1914 - 582 pages
...quenched the fire, which burnt the stick, which beat the dog, who bit the cat, that ate the kid, which my father bought for two pieces of money. A kid! A kid! * This prototype of " The House that Jack Built " is presumed to be a hymn in Seder Hagadah, fol. 23.... | |
 | Paul Klapper - Reading - 1914 - 262 pages
...repetitions of, 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, etc. A kid, a kid. These lines are repeated frequently. By competitive devices, dramatizations and... | |
 | John Paterson Smyth - Bible - 1915 - 258 pages
...from the power of Bome. 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 : Akid,akkL The ox means Edom (the European nations), who will in the latter dayi rescue the Holy Land... | |
 | Laura Fry Kready - Fairy tales - 1916 - 354 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...bought For two pieces of money: A kid, a kid. The remarkable similarity to The Old Woman and Her Pig l at once proclaims the origin of that tale also.... | |
 | Ella Flagg Young, Walter Taylor Field - Readers - 1916 - 168 pages
...my father bought For two pieces of money: A kid, a kid. 86 Then came the fire, and burned the stick, That beat the dog, That bit the cat, That ate the...father bought For two pieces of money : A kid, a kid. 87 Then came the water, and quenched the fire, That burned the stick, That beat the dog, That bit the... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Scofield Thayer, Waldo Ralph Browne - 1916 - 460 pages
...follows : " 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! " And so on, for ten stanzas, with an interpretation based on the Chaldee or the Hebrew version, reviewing... | |
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