 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
 | Paul Klapper - Reading (Elementary) - 1914 - 212 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... | |
 | Laura Fry Kready - Fairy tales - 1916 - 313 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.... | |
 | Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, Walter Taylor Field - Readers - 1916
...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, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1916
...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... | |
 | Children's poetry - 1919 - 223 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... | |
 | Charles Madison Curry, Erle Elsworth Clippinger - Children's literature - 1921 - 693 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 - 346 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,... | |
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