INTRODUCTION
There was a lamb, a little lamb,
And daddy he did buy it.
There came a nasty pussy cat
And ate the little lambkin.
A dog that was enraged
Because of guiltless blood,
Came hastening swift as arrow,
And tore to death the cat.
A stick stood by the doggie
Had long been used in threat,
The stick it beat the doggie,
And doggie fell down dead.
Upon the hearth the fire,
To avenge the stick it came,
The stick was next consumed
All in the ardent flame.
There bubbled up a fountain,
The water out did well,
It washèd o'er the fire
And quenchèd it as well.
A thirsty ox came thither,
And drew towards the spring,
He drank and drank, and drinking
He drained the well away.
