Fire won’t burn stick;
Stick won’t beat snake;
Snake won’t bite queen;
Queen won’t coax king;
King won’t kill man;
Man won’t cut tree;
I can’t get the grain of corn
To save my life from the farmer’s wife!”
“Ee-EE-Ee-e-e-ee,” squeaked the mouse. “I won’t help you.”
So the crow flew and flew until he met a cat; and he said: