Stranica 193 [193]
THE FOX AND THE FARMER. 187
The grey Goose ran right round the haystack.
“Oh, ho!” said the Fox, “you are very fat;
You'll do very well to ride on my back,
From this into yonder town, heigho!”
The farmer’s wife she jumped out of bed,
And out of the window she popped her head;
“Oh, husband! oh, husband! the Geese are all dead,
For the Fox has been through the town, heigho!”
The farmet he loaded his pistol with leaa,
And shot the old rogue of a Fox through the head;
“Ah, ha!” said the farmer, “I think you re quite dead,