...married the man all tattered and torn, that kissed the maiden all forlorn, that milked the cow with a crumpled horn, that tossed the dog, that worried the cat, that caught the rat, that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built [Z 51]. *BP II 1 08; Kohler-Bolte I 517f. 2040. The Climax of Horrors....

...typical This is the Priest (not) shaven and shorn, that married the man all tattered and torn unto the maiden all forlorn that milked the cow with the...the cat that caught the rat that ate the malt that lay in the House that Jack built. From Mark Twain's (Burlesque) Autobiography and First Romance. The...

...malt that lay in the house that Jack built. Move to the final formula, and one has (Opie 1997: 271-2): This is the farmer sowing his corn, That kept the...the cat, That caught the rat, That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built. Both 'How the Mouse Regained its Tail' and 'The Old Woman and her...

...to overcome breathiness of speech than — "This is the cock that crowed in the morn That awakened the priest all shaven and shorn That married the man...the cat That caught the rat That ate the malt That lay in the house that Jack built." Or. by way of variety, "Rohed in senescent garb that seems in sooth...

...toward the This is the Priest (not) shaven and shorn, that married the man all tattered and torn unto the maiden all forlorn that milked the cow with the...the cat that caught the rat that ate the malt that lay in the House that Jack built. 43 44 doomed prisoner, and the tears came into his eyes. He opened...

...all forlorn, that milked the cow with a crumpled horn, that tossed the [little] dog [over the barn], that worried the cat, that caught the rat, that ate the malt that lay in the house that Jack built."2 Kettengedichte, die ähnliche Gruppen von Tieren oder Gegenständen...