A Book of Nursery Songs and Rhymes/Four-and-twenty tailors went to kill a snail

by Sabine Baring-Gould

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XXXVI.

Four-and-twenty tailors went to kill a snail,
The bravest man among them durstn't touch its tail.
The snail put out its horns, like a little dun cow,
Run, tailors, run, or she'll kill you all now.