 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
 | Eneas Sweetland Dallas - Art - 1863 - 732 pages
...1731. It is not, probably, unfamiliar to some of our readers, and it commences thus : — A kid, a kid my father bought For two pieces of money : A kid, a kid. It goes on accumulating in each verso much as does the " House that Jack built,,'' the chief actors... | |
 | Bourchier Wrey Savile - Human beings - 1863 - 338 pages
...That killed the butcher, That killed the ox, That 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 following explanation of the allegory is given: — The kid, a clean animal, signifies the Hebrew... | |
 | Spiritualism - 1866 - 588 pages
...23. 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, &c. 4. Then came the staff and beat the dog... | |
 | Christian life - 1872 - 888 pages
...Turkish power, to which the Holy Land is subject. The commencement, " Then came the That burned tho staff, That beat the dog, That bit the cat. That ate the kid "Which my Fucher bought For two pieces of money." Holy One, blessed be He," is designed to show that... | |
 | Nursery rhymes - 1874 - 588 pages
...and 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. 10. Then came the Holy One, blessed be He! And killed the angel of death, That killed the butcher,... | |
 | Edward Clodd - Creation - 1875 - 312 pages
...That killed tho 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.' We now bid farewell to the myths and reach a place where the ground is firmer beneath us, where the... | |
 | Edward Clodd - 1878 - 296 pages
...drank the water, That quenched the fire, That burned the staff, That beat the dog, That bit the oat, That ate the kid That my father bought For two pieces of money : A kid, a. kid.' We now bid farewell to the myths and reach a place where the ground is firmer beneath us, where the... | |
 | John Roby - 1879 - 534 pages
...For two pieces of money. A kid, a kid. " 6. Then came the water, and quenched the fire, That burnt the staff, That beat the dog, That bit the cat, That...father bought For two pieces of money. A kid, a kid. " 7. Then came the ox, and drank the water, That quenched the fire, That burnt the staff, That beat... | |
 | English periodicals - 1879 - 822 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...father bought for two pieces of money, a kid, a kid." I would, however, warn the reader against attaching to this poem any such limited, and, as one may... | |
 | Edward Clodd, Richard Anthony Proctor - English essays - 1883 - 382 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...father bought for two pieces of money, a kid, a kid." I would, however, warn the reader against attaching to this poem any such limited, and, as one may... | |
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