The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #173128   Message #4198295
Posted By: and e
29-Feb-24 - 08:30 PM
Thread Name: Folklore: Listen, Listen the Cat is Pissing (poem)
Subject: RE: Folklore: Listen, Listen the Cat is Pissing (poem)
Quick, quick,
The cat's been sick.
Where? Where?
Under the chair.
Hasten, hasten,
Fetch the basin.
No. no
Fetch the po.
Kate, Kate, you're fare to late,
The carpet's in a dreadful state.

Boy, 11, London


The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren by Iona Archibald Opie. 1977. pg 39.

See online here: https://archive.org/details/lorelanguageofsc0000opie/page/38/mode/2up?q=quick%2C+quick