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- “Sing It!”

“Sing It!” A pharmacist’s (farmer’s) servant who stutters tries to tell his master that the laboratory is burning (that he fell into a canal along with his horse and wagon). He cannot pronounce the words, so the pharmacist tells him to sing the news. The servant sings the following to the tune of a children’s song, “The laboratory is on fire, hurrah!” (“The horse and wagon fell in the water, the farmer must come and see.”) Cf. Type 1702.

K177

Early version in 1558 by Bonaventure Des Périers, Nouvelles Récréations (No. 45).

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