...genins got by rote, was " Little Jack Horner," or that equally sublime conception of the poet, " Hi diddle diddle, the cat and the fiddle, the cow jumped over the moon." The interest that will attach to the records of my education, however, is not of this limited and individual...

...the regular hexameters and pentameters of the editor. " Hey diddle diddle! the cat and the Hddle! , The cow jumped over the moon : The little dog laughed to see such fine sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon." " Heididulum — atque iterum didulum ! Felisque...

...And saw him seated on a heap of dead, Yelling the nursery -tune, Grimacing at the moon. . . . " And the cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed...such sport And the dish ran away with the spoon." And, as he stopt to snigger, I struggled to my knees and pulled the trigger.' Against this horror we...

...it."* Probably from the strange couplets on Signs came the popular verse sung to children : — Hei diddle diddle, the Cat and the Fiddle, The Cow jumped...over the Moon; The little Dog laughed to see such a. sport, And the Dish fell a licking the Spoon. The three Blue Balls, as is observed in the Antiquarian...

...step, and a jump. 17. Scan the following lines, and then translate them into Latin hexameters : "High diddle diddle! The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon !" In what quarter was the moon when the cow jumped over her ? Was it an Alderney or a Welsh cow ?...

...ditty of " Hey de diddle, The cat and the fiddle : The cow jump'd over the moon, The little dog laugh'd to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon." On the whole, however, with the exception of the above, and other INNOCENT odes of the same cast, we...

...beginning to end. 39. One piece in Ishmael's foolish book, wag, " High ding diddle '. The cat is in the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon ; The little dog laughed to see the sport, The dish hopped over the spoon." 40. « It is strange," said Mr. Halyard, "that a child...

...ditty of " Hey de diddle, The cat and the fiddle : The cow jump'd over the moon, The little dog laugh'd to see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon." On the whole, however, with the exception of the above, and other INNOCENT odes of the same cast, we...

...language, till she, in her turn, lost her temper, and then out she would sing, in a sort of scream — " Hey diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle. The cow jumped over the moon," &c. And thus she continued to sing (or squeal) until her wrath cooled down. The consequences of forming...

...language, till she, in her turn lust her temper, and then out she would sing, in & sort •• scream — ' Hey diddle, diddle, the cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon,' &c. And thus she continued to sing (or squeel) until her wrath cooled down. 170 was up, in great wrath,...