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and e	Folklore: Listen, Listen the Cat is Pissing (poem) (21)	RE: Folklore: Quick, Quick the Cat is Sick (poem)	29 Feb 24
Quick quick the cat's been sick. Where? Where? Under the Chair. Hasten, hasten Fetch the basin. Kate, Kate, You're far too late, The rug is in a dreadful state. Listen! Listen. The Cat is pissin. Where? Where? Under the chair. Run! Run! Get the gun. Too late, she'll soon be done. These two examples illustrate -- perhaps inelegantly -- both the conservative retention of phrases, words, and sound, and the dynamic invention of variation.... From Dynamics of Folklore by Barre Toelken https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dynamics_Of_Folklore/i2XgCwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=%22listen+listen%22+%22where+where%22+%22pissing%22+OR+%22pissin%22&pg=PT61&printsec=frontcover

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