Dame, What Makes Your Ducks to Die?
Dame, what makes your ducks to die?
What the pize* ails 'em? what the pize ails 'em?
They kick up their heels, and there they lie;
What the pize ails 'em now?
Heigh, ho! heigh, ho!
Dame, what makes your ducks to die?
What a pize ails 'em? what a pize ails 'em?
Heigh, ho! heigh, ho!
Dame, what ails your ducks to die?
Eating o' polly-wigs**, eating o' polly-wigs.
Heigh, ho! heigh, ho!
Notes
*Pest or Pox
**Polly-wigs = Pollywogs = Tadpoles
Thanks and Acknowledgements
This rhyme and illustration are from The Nursery Rhyme Book, edited by Andrew Lang and illustrated by L. Leslie Brooke (1897).
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