time to go to bed he put the cat in the rocking-chair, and he put the
dog under the table, and he put the goat upstairs, and he put the bull
down cellar, and the rooster flew up on to the roof, and Jack went to
bed.

By-and-by the robbers saw it was all dark and they sent one man back
to the house to look after their money. Before long he came back in a
great fright and told them his story.

"I went back to the house," said he, "and went in and tried to sit
down in the rocking-chair, and there was an old woman knitting, and
she stuck her knitting-needles into me." That was the cat, you know.

"I went to the table to look after the money and there was a shoemaker
under the table, and he stuck his awl into me." That was the dog, you
know.

"I started to go upstairs, and there was a man up there threshing, and
he knocked me down with his flail." That was the goat, you know.

"I started to go down cellar, and there was a man down there chopping
wood, and he knocked me up with his axe." That was the bull, you know.

"But I shouldn't have minded all that if it hadn't been for that
little fellow on top of the house, who kept a-hollering, 'Chuck him up
to me-e! Chuck him up to me-e!'" Of course that was the cock-a-doodle-
do.