The Apprentices by Leon Garfield

Author:Leon Garfield [Leon Garfield]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: RHCP
Published: 2013-05-09T16:00:00+00:00

sang Moses, in his high, stammering voice; and his eyes were bright both for the cat and the kid.

“Then came a dog

And bit the cat

That ate the kid

That my father bought for two zuzim,”

joined in Bunting, who loved the old song dearly.

“Only one kid, only one kid.”

They all joined in the refrain, and even as they did so, a bright and burning light came along the street, scouring out the shadows and reddening the fronts of the houses till they seemed to run with blood.

“I knows that chune,” said the linkboy, who had been sent to fetch Bunting and the plate. “It’s Free Blind Mice, ain’t it?”

He came and, with his torch held high, watched in puzzlement as the three children of Israel croaked and sang of an ancient deliverance under the many-chimneyed sky.

“Then came a stick

And beat the dog

That bit the cat

That ate the kid

That my father bought for two zuzim!”

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