✦ A Nursery Rhyme ✦
There was a crooked man who walked a crooked mile, found a crooked sixpence, and bought a crooked cat. They all lived together in a little crooked house.
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✦ The Rhyme ✦
Traditional English nursery rhyme. Public domain.
There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile; He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a little crooked house.
✦ About the Rhyme ✦
“There Was a Crooked Man” was collected in the 1840s. A stile is a set of steps for climbing over a fence or wall in the countryside.
Everything in the rhyme is crooked, from the man to his house, and that is what makes it so fun to picture. Illustrators have drawn the little crooked house in countless wonderful ways.
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