Tuesday 5 June 2012

Legs

As I was walking from home to Wood Green I saw:
  • a black laborador in the park with three legs
  • a man on crutches with one leg
Coincidences.
(I'm imagining this like that rhyme my mother used to tell us - as I was going to St Ives, I met a man with seven wives, seven wives had seven somethings ... how many were going to St Ives - clearly I can't remember all the words).

4 comments:

  1. As I was going to St. Ives I met a man with seven wives,
    Each wife had seven sacks, each sack had seven cats,
    Each cat had seven kits: kits, cats, sacks and wives,
    How many were going to St. Ives?

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  2. I prefer this rhyme as it is creepy....

    Yesterday, upon the stair,
    I met a man who wasn’t there
    He wasn’t there again today
    I wish, I wish he’d go away...


    When I came home last night at three
    The man was waiting there for me
    But when I looked around the hall
    I couldn’t see him there at all!
    Go away, go away, don’t you come back any more!
    Go away, go away, and please don’t slam the door... (slam!)


    Last night I saw upon the stair
    A little man who wasn’t there
    He wasn’t there again today
    Oh, how I wish he’d go away

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  3. One more for Harriet

    I like this one too as it reminds me of politicians...

    There was a crooked man and he walked a crooked mile,
    He found a crooked sixpence upon a crooked stile.
    He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse.
    And they all lived together in a little crooked house

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  4. Great memory jog - mum used to say all those to me I'd forgotten!!

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