Chapter I

THE TAILOR AND
THE CROW

DRAWINGS BY

L. LESLIE BROOKE

THE TAILOR
AND THE
CROW

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THE HOUSE IN THE WOOD

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PUBLISHED BY
FREDERICK WARNE & CO., Ltd.

The Tailor and the Crow:

An Old Rhyme
with
New Drawings

by
L. Leslie Brooke

London
Frederick Warne and Co Ltd.
New York

_Printed in Great Britain._

COPYRIGHT
1911
ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.

THE TAILOR AND THE CROW

A carrion crow sat on an oak,
Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding do,

Watching a tailor shape his cloak;

Sing heigh ho,

the carrion crow,

Fol de riddle,

lol de riddle,

hi ding do.

Wife,

bring me my old bent bow,

Fol de riddle,

lol de riddle,

hi

ding do.

That I may shoot yon carrion crow;

Sing heigh ho, the carrion crow,

Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding do.

The tailor he shot

and missed his mark,

Fol de riddle,

lol de riddle,

hi ding

do.

And shot his own sow quite through the heart;

Sing heigh ho, the carrion crow, Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding do.

Wife, bring brandy in a spoon,

Fol de riddle,

lol de riddle,

hi-ding do.

For our old sow

is in a swoon;

Sing

HEIGH

HO,

the carrion crow,

Fol de riddle, lol de riddle, hi ding

do.

End of Project Gutenberg's The Tailor and the Crow, by L. Leslie Brooke