Over the butter-kits, all through the dairy:

Over cheese, over butter, and milk-pails, he swore

“’Tis the work, I’ll be bound, of some foul witch or fairy.

How can I ever be happy or rich,

If robbed and tormented by fairy and witch,”

Quoth he; and lo, with a sudden turn

He stumbled and spilt the cream-full churn!

He went to his mother (she dwelt in the cot

Amid the hazels down by the linn: