"Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son ""Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son"" is a popular English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19621. Modern versions of the rhyme include: The 'pig' mentioned in the song is almost certainly not a live animal but rather a kind of pastry, often made with an apple filling, smaller than a pie. Another version of the rhyme is: This rhyme is often conflated with a separate and longer rhyme: Both rhymes were first printed separately in a ""Tom the Piper's Son"", a chapbook produced around 1795 in London, England. The"
"versions both refer to lovers, while Farquhar's version refers to fleeing overseas to join the army. The tune was provided with another set of lyrics for the British ""Sharpe"" television series of the 1990s, based on Farquhar's version. This version was also recorded by John Tams who played Dan Hagman in the series. The nursery rhyme ""Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son"" mentions a piper who knows only one tune, this one. Early versions of this, known as ""The distracted Jockey's Lamentations"", may have been written (but not included) in Thomas D'Urfey's play The Campaigners (1698): Another nursery rhyme ""Five Little"
"Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (film) Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son is a 1969 experimental film made by Ken Jacobs. The film is considered a landmark in avant-garde and structural filmmaking, and remains Jacobs' best-known work. It was admitted to the National Film Registry in 2007, and is part of Anthology Film Archives' ""Essential Cinema"" repertory. In a meticulous experiment in rephotography, Jacobs deconstructs, manipulates, and recontextualizes a small fragment of found footage: a 1905 film showing a group of people chasing a thief through a barn, ""shot and probably directed by G.W. ‘Billy’ Bitzer, rescued via a paper print"
"proceed to cover him with butter and dough they have stolen in order to eat him as a pudding. They are seen by the two other Kittens who are hiding from their mother as they steal the dough, butter, and rolling-pin. However, when they proceed to settle the dough with a rolling-pin, the noise gets through the floorboards and attracts the attention of Tabitha Twitchit and her cousin Ribby who has been helping search for Tom. They quickly call for John Joiner, the carpenter, who saws open the floor and rescues Tom. He has the dough removed, is washed, and"
"Thirteenth (fairy tale) ""Thirteenth"" is an Italian fairy tale collected by Thomas Frederick Crane in ""Italian Popular Tales"". It is Aarne-Thompson type 328, the boy steals the giant's treasures. A mother of thirteen sons motivates them to become fast runners, by arranging a competition each night: whoever reaches home first will enjoy the soup made from herbs their father has gathered. The youngest son, called Thirteenth, always wins, and as a result his brothers envy him and try to get rid of him. One day, the king promises a prize of gold for the hero who manages to steal the"
"Little Tommy Tucker ""Little Tommy Tucker"" is an English language nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 19618. Common modern versions include: The earliest recorded version of this rhyme is from ""Tommy Thumb's Pretty Song Book"" (c. 1744), which has only four lines. The full version was produced in ""Mother Goose's Melody"" (c. 1765). There are references to various parts of the rhyme in earlier works. To 'sing for one's supper' was a proverbial phrase by the seventeenth century. ""An excellent new Medley"" (c. 1620) included the line 'Tom would eat meat but wants a knife'."
"mother's pots and glasses from a sunbeam. When his fellows try the same, their pots and glasses fall and are broken. Thereafter, Tom stays home under his mother's supervision. At Christmas, she makes puddings, but Tom falls into the batter and is boiled into one of them. When a tinker comes begging, Tom's mother inadvertently gives him the pudding containing her son. The tinker farts while crossing a stile, but Tom calls out about the farting and the frightened tinker drops the pudding. Tom eats himself free and returns home to tell his mother and father of his adventure. His"
"Spike is sleeping beside his son Tyke when Tyke suddenly wakes up after a nightmare. Then Spike gives his son milk and comforts him back to sleep again. No sooner has Tyke dozed off again than Tom and Jerry enter the scene. Tom runs through a door (literally) and into some spades, rakes and hoes, as Jerry hides among the two dogs. To find Jerry, Tom picks Tyke up to look underneath the puppy. Spike yells out """"Hey, you!, That's my boy you got in your hand!"""" Tom holds up his right hand and sees nothing, then holds up his"
"""Peter the Wild Man"" is preserved at Berkhamsted School. Peter the Wild Boy Peter the Wild Boy (born ""c."" 1713; died 22 February 1785) was a boy from Hanover in northern Germany who was found in 1725 living wild in the woods near Hamelin (Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg), the town of Pied Piper legend. The boy, of unknown parentage, had been living an entirely feral existence for an unknown length of time, surviving by eating forest flora; he walked on all fours, exhibited uncivilized behaviour and could not be taught to speak a language. He is now believed to have suffered"
"the Piper. The Piper is sent to follow after the children. The Milksop goes after the group of robbers, but Fenoglio saves them by writing giant human nests up in the trees. Mo goes off in secret with Dustfinger, Violante, and her legion of child soldiers to the castle in the lake, where the white book is kept. In the meantime, Orpheus has put himself in the service of the Adderhead, in the hopes of picking the winning team but doesn't because Mo has a few tricks up his sleeve. He is also plagued by visits from a now insane"
"Cheating the Piper Cheating the Piper is a silent short animated film by Bray Productions, and is one of the cartoons based on the comic strip ""Jerry on the Job"". The film itself is loosely based on the legend of the ""Pied Piper of Hamelin"". At the train station, Mr. Givney is doing some paper work when a rat pops out of a hole. After the rat eats his sock and belt, Mr. Givney pulls out a revolver and guns down the rodent. He then comes outside and orders Jerry to deal with the station's rat problem. In no time"
"at his feet. It rattled the millstone again, the stepmother said that it thundered, the father went out, and the bird dropped the watch and chain at his feet. It rattled the millstone a third time, and the stepmother went out, and the bird dropped the millstone on her head. The Rose-Tree The Rose-Tree is an English fairy tale collected by Joseph Jacobs in ""English Fairy Tales"". Also included within ""A Book Of British Fairytales"" by Alan Garner. It is Aarne–Thompson type 720, my mother slew me; my father ate me. Another of this type is ""The Juniper Tree"", where"
"Peter Piper ""Peter Piper"" is an English-language nursery rhyme and well-known alliteration tongue-twister. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 1945. Common modern versions include: The earliest version of this tongue twister was published in ""Peter Piper's Practical Principles of Plain and Perfect Pronunciation"" by John Harris (1756–1846) in London in 1813, which includes a one name tongue-twister for each letter of the alphabet in the same style. However, the rhyme was apparently known at least a generation earlier. Some authors have identified the subject of the rhyme as Pierre Poivre, an eighteenthcentury French horticulturalist and government administrator"
"Krupp into putting the boys to detention, then he rips up and throws it away, and shouts at the boys that they should write about something besides poop. They can't think of anything, so Mr. Krupp gives them ""How the Grinch Stole Christmas"" since it was his favorite book as a kid. The book inspires the boys and, agreeing with Krupp as well, they make a sequel comic about pee, which infuriates Mr. Krupp into putting them to detention again and making them do busy work. The Hoskins and Diaper Dog set up picnic in the park, where Billy ends"
"butler is compared to Nestor of ""The Adventures of Tintin""; a character describes Monday's Noon as exactly how she imagined Jane Austen's Mr Darcy; the Piper is a re-creation of the legendary Pied Piper of Hamelin, who with his music led a population of rats from a city, later to do the same to the town's children, whose parents had refused to pay him the promised fee. The Mariner is likely a reference to the title character of the ballad ""The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Both the mariner of the book and the one of"
"Whuppity Stoorie Whippitie Stourie (pronounced ""whuppity stoorie"") is a Scottish fairy tale collected by Robert Chambers in ""Popular Rhymes of Scotland"". It is Aarne-Thompson type 500, The Name of the Helper. This categorizes it with ""Rumpelstiltskin"", although guessing the name of a helper to rescue a baby is the only common motif. A woman's husband went to the fair and never returned; she was left alone with her baby son and owning only a big sow. The sow was about to farrow, and she hoped for a good litter, but one day she went to the pen to find the"
"filed for copyright purposes with the Library of Congress,"" according to Jacobs. Jacobs' refashioning of the footage is an essayistic meditation on the nature of cinematic representation; in the words of ""Chicago Reader"" critic Fred Camper, it is ""a film about watching movies."" Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (film) Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son is a 1969 experimental film made by Ken Jacobs. The film is considered a landmark in avant-garde and structural filmmaking, and remains Jacobs' best-known work. It was admitted to the National Film Registry in 2007, and is part of Anthology Film Archives' ""Essential Cinema"" repertory. In"
"of kin and therefore his legal guardian. Thus, Henry moves to Augustus' residence, as the uncle neither wants to have a housekeeper nor move to his nephew's house. Meanwhile, Tom and Lucy Little (two of the tiny people inside the walls of Henry's house) snag an apple that Mrs. Evans had left for Henry. They repay the boy by finding his lucky rabbit's foot and sneaking it in his suitcase. They are carried away to Augustus' house, trapped inside the luggage. Another two of the tiny creatures, Grandpa and Dinky, soon find them. There, the Littles soon learn of Augustus'"
"Tom's face. An angry Tom seizes Pecos, but Jerry arrives, rescuing his uncle again by squirting a tube of toothpaste into Tom's face, with the toothpaste forming into a pair of glasses. As Jerry makes a run back to the mouse hole with Pecos, they fall through a floor grate. Tom arrives and listens to Pecos continuing to play his guitar until he breaks another string and claims he needs another whisker. Scared of feeling any more pain due to another whisker being plucked, Tom barricades the grate and flees. He hides next to the basement door, which Pecos throws"
"Brian, Zebras) (Penguin, Windy Day, The Hungry Nanny Goat, How Does Your Garden Grow, Wiggly Worms, Cleaning Windows) (Wobbly Jellies, Feeding the Ducks, Tom's Fast Food Takeaway, A Special Cake, Tom's Storybook, Baking Bread, Hippo) (Apple Picking, Kittens, Playground, Horse, Baby Party, Elephant) (Dentist, Owl, Rockpool) (Camping, Painting, Lovely Old Toad, The Big Wheel, Tom's Storybook, Balancing Surprise, Donkey Goes Missing, Paper Boats) (At the Beach, Trains, Rockpool, Owl, Dentist, Hedgehog) (Boing Boing, Lemur, Jumping Up and Down, Hopping Day) (Naughty Little Pigs, Sheep, Feeding the Calves, Three Little Pigs) (Tiny Leaves Home, Lost in the Supermarket, Dressing Up) (Mountain"
"time. Merlin casts a spell to open Tom's mouth and keep it open, and he goes inside the cat and frees all the mice, birds, and fish Tom has ever eaten. He climbs back into Tom's palm and releases the spell. Tom releases Merlin and falls backward in fright; then he hits the wall and a board falls on him. Jerry sets out for more food, but Tom has squeezed into the tiny elevator door. Tom pops out and chases Jerry for a minute, but then runs away briefly, thinking that it is the ""haunted mouse"". Tom takes a look"
"Transylvania, or that he made them walk into the Weser as he did with the rats, and they all drowned. Some versions state that the Piper returned the children after payment, or that he returned the children after the villagers paid several times the original amount of gold. The earliest mention of the story seems to have been on a stained-glass window placed in the Church of Hamelin c. 1300. The window was described in several accounts between the 14th and 17th centuries. It was destroyed in 1660. Based on the surviving descriptions, a modern reconstruction of the window has"
"that Arthur's mother is trapped in a time loop and is being displayed as an exhibit in the Incomparable Gardens. He cannot interact with her; when he looks out of the windows he can see nothing but green leaves draped against them. Soon after, a Piper's child (employed as a gardener) enters the house with a flaming pitchfork; Arthur grabs and deactivates it, and forces the boy to lead him out of the house. The boy professes not to have heard of the upheavals among the Trustees; he thinks Arthur is the Reaper (leading Arthur to suspect that the Reaper"
"stealing his half-brother Sid's crabapples, his Aunt Polly punishes him by making him whitewash the fence on a Saturday morning. The boy leads his friends to believe he is enjoying the task, and before long they are giving him their treasures in exchange for the privilege of joining in the fun. Together with Huck and Joe Harper, Tom runs away from home to become a pirate. The three set off on a raft to Jacksons Island in the Mississippi River, where they remain for three days. Upon returning home, Tom discovers it was thought the three had drowned, and the"
"of very curious and outlandish fashion"". One man speculated that the pistol was ""a relic of the buccaneers of old times"" that may have ""belonged to Kidd himself"". This inspires one of the party to recount ""a story about a fellow who once dug up Kidd's buried money"". This story is included in the following chapter under the title ""The Devil and Tom Walker"". This story, along with several of Irving's others, was influential in American folklore tales of Pirates and buried treasure. Kidd the Pirate ""Kidd the Pirate"" is a short story by American author Washington Irving, based on"
"paid all the money in the town's treasury, (fifty-thousand guilders) he offers to rid the town of the rats. An unusual element is introduced into the story here: whenever the Piper plays a happy tune for the children, only Truson and the children can hear it. When he plays ""In the Hall of the Mountain King"" and leads the rats to their doom in the river, the children quickly fall asleep and only the material-minded adults such as the Mayor, but not Truson, can hear the music. The Piper rids the town of the rats, but rather than simply paying"
"Potter wrote miniature letters to children as from characters in her books. The letters reveal more about their characters and their doings. Though many were probably lost or destroyed, a few are extant from the characters in ""Two Bad Mice"". In one, Jane Dollcook has broken the soup tureen and both her legs; in another, Tom Thumb writes to Lucinda asking her to spare a feather bed which she regrets she cannot send because the one he stole was never replaced. Tom Thumb and Hunca Munca have nine children and the parents need another kettle for boiling water. Hunca Munca"
"mother thereafter keeps a closer watch upon him. One day, he accompanies her to the field to milk the cows. He sits under a thistle, but a red cow swallows him. The cow is given a laxative and Tom passes from her in a ""cowturd."" He is taken home and cleaned. Another day, he accompanies his father for the seed sowing and rides in the horse's ear. Tom is set down in the field to play the scarecrow, but a raven carries him away. His parents search for him, but are unable to find him. The raven drops Tom at"
"cautious of his surroundings this time. Meanwhile, Jerry hears a bullfrog croaking on a lily pad and turns the pad to aim the frog and kicks it into Tom's drink, causing Tom to swallow the frog when he gulps his drink. The frog jumps around in Tom's body, causing Tom to bounce into the pond and allowing Jerry to return to the hammock. Tom chases Jerry, but Jerry starts a lawn mower. Tom gets stuck in the hammock as the mower runs into him, turning Tom into a paper doll. Tom goes to sleep in the repaired hammock with a"
"face to fall, he is beaten. In the kitchen, the mouse writes his last will: ""My last will – to Tom, my favorite cat I leave my sole earthly possession – ONE CUSTARD PIE. Signed: Jerry."" Tom reads it, and answers, ""One custard pie?! Let me have it!"" And the trickster Jerry does – right in the face. The chase resumes in full force until Tom stops in horror, as the dog is snarling. However, when the dog doesn't otherwise move, the cat pulls up Spike's chin to reveal the trickster faking it. When he sees Tom, he continues to"
"Beach, Fun on the Beach, Donkey Cake, Watering the Garden, Ants, Naughty Little Fly, Melon Cheese, Rainy Day, Koala) (The Secret Magic Parcels, Fishes, A Noisy Surprise, Tom's Storybook, Looking in the Mirror, Feeding the Calves) (Fluffy Little Chicks, It's a Cockerel, Milking a Cow, Raspberry Picking, Tom's Storybook, A Pool for the Ducks) (Super Tiny, Laundrette, King of the Castle, Tom's Storybook, Naughty Mysterious Person, Iguana) (Flying High, Tom's Storybook, The Village Band, Sticky Surprise, Tilly's Storybook, Sea Lions, Three Little Pigs, Doctor, Tiny's Storybook, A Special Party Cake) (Lost In the Supermarket, Tilly's Storybook, Tiny Leaves Home, The"
"but in the impending confusion, ends up putting the diaper on himself while the baby crawls off, nonchalantly. Tom and Jerry catch up with the baby, only to lose it again, and fearing that it has crawled into a cement mixer on the 30th floor, the two dive straight in, only to find that the baby never did enter the mixer but instead playing with a hammer. The baby then playfully bonks Tom on the head. Later on, Jeannie is in panic and crying, telling a 30-year old police officer that she was babysitting, took her eye off the baby"
"Tom, he screams, hits him with the brush, runs downstairs to the bedroom and hides in a bed, causing a doll to turn up and shout ""Mama!"" Jerry uses the doll's clothes to disguise himself as a girl holding an umbrella, but his shirt falls off of him leaving his shoes on his feet and white pants that goes under it. Tom tries to open the dollhouse roof when Nancy returns and scolds him again. Spanking Tom (off screen) and tucking him back in bed, then she threatens to feed him castor oil if he gets out again. Tom goes"