A carrion crow sat on an oak

Watching a tailor shape his cloak.

“Wife,” cried he, “bring me my bow

That I may shoot yon carrion crow.”

The tailor shot and missed his mark

And shot his own sow through the heart.

“Wife, bring brandy in a spoon

For our poor sow is in a swoon.”

 

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