The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #37571 Message #810684
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
24-Oct-02 - 10:13 PM
Thread Name: Origins: All Around My Hat
Subject: RE: Origins? All around my hat
I'd forgotten about the two sets in Creighton. Again, essentially the same texts as the English set I mentioned earlier, either "de-Cockneyfied" or descended from the putative earlier version. It may well be significant that the patter and the vegetables haven't typically turned up in traditional examples, though tradition often has a way of shrugging off unnatural accretions of that sort.