| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 40771 |
| QUOTATION: | Hey, diddle, diddle, The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Mother Goose (fl. 17th18th century. Hey, diddle, diddle (l. 16). . .
Oxford Book of Light Verse, The. W. H. Auden, ed. (1938) Oxford University Press. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
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