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Other variants include "down the mouse ran" [2] or "down the mouse run" [3] or "and down he ran" or "and down he run" in place of "the mouse ran down". Other variants have non-sequential numbers, for example starting with "The clock struck ten, The mouse ran down" instead of the traditional "one".
Origin unknown, lyrics from this song are mentioned as early as 1912. Hickory Dickory Dock 'Hickety Dickety Dock' Great Britain 1744 [41] First mentioned in Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book. The Hokey Cokey 'The Hokey Pokey' United Kingdom 1842 [42] Included in Robert Chambers' Popular Rhymes of Scotland from 1842. Hot Cross Buns: Great Britain ...
scan of Tommy Thumb's pretty song book. Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song-Book is the oldest extant anthology of English nursery rhymes, published in London in 1744.It contains the oldest printed texts of many well-known and popular rhymes, as well as several that eventually dropped out of the canon of rhymes for children.
Alex Lovy first introduced Hickory, Dickory, and Doc in the 1959 cartoon Space Mouse, in which Doc attempts to sell the mice to NASA as test animals. [1] Lovy's shorts mainly follow the contemporary cat-and-mouse chase formula of the time, with Doc usually failing to catch the more cunning Hickory and Dickory.
The Teletubbies watch some children dancing while King Pleasure and Biscuit Boys play Hickory Dickory Dock. Back in Teletubbyland, Po is making some adjustments and then Tinky Winky slides into the House. A voice trumpet appears and sings Hickory Dickory Dock. Tinky Winky and Po laugh as they act out the nursery rhyme.
A tsunami warning was issued Thursday morning following a 7.0 magnitude earthquake that struck in Humboldt County, 7 miles west-southwest of Ferndale, Calif., the National Weather Service said in ...
The Fulton County Jail, including its south annex and two other locations, is part of a federal investigation the Justice Department announced last month that alleges inmates' civil rights are ...
An outbreak of apparent kleptomania at a student hostel arouses Hercule Poirot's interest when he sees the bizarre list of stolen and vandalised items. These include a stethoscope, some lightbulbs, some old flannel trousers, a box of chocolates, a slashed rucksack, some boracic powder and a diamond ring later found in a bowl of soup – he congratulates the warden, Mrs Hubbard, on a 'unique ...