THE HEN AND FOX.
My own fat hen
Did go one day
Out in the lot,
An egg to lay.
The day was hot;
A cow sat by,
And in her ear
Was a big fly.
"Buz, buz, buz, buz,"
The fly did go,
In the cow's ear,
And bit it so.
The cow did say,
"O moo! O moo!
Do go a-way,
O do! O do!
"Go to the pig,
You bad old fly,
Get out! get out!
O moo! O my!"
It did not go,
The bad old fly;
And now it lit
In the cow's eye.
Up she did hop!
And ran a-way;
And now my hen
Her egg did lay.