Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1880-09-18
F." THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT"
A Curious Account Of the Origin Of the
Well-known Nursery Story.

history of that people, Yet such is actu-
ally the fact. The original, in tine Chaldee
language, is now lying before me. and as it
may not be uninteresting to the readers OF
the Congregational Magazine l will here
furnish them with a literal translation of it,
and then add the Interpretation as given
by P. L. Leberecht, Leipsics 1871. The
hymn itself is found in Sepher Haggadah,
VOL 3D.
l. A kid, kid my father bought
For two pieces of money:
A kid, kid.
2. Then came the cat and ate the kid
That my father bought,
For two pieces OF money:
kid, kid.
8. Then came the dog, that bit the cat,
That ate the kid,
That my father bought
For two pieces of money:
A kid, kid.
4. Then came the staff, and beat the dog,
That bit the cat,
That ate the kid,
That my father bought
For two pieces Of money:
A kid, kid.
S. Then came the fire, and burned the staff,
That beat the dog,
That bit the cat,
That ate the kid,
That my father bought
For two pieces of money
kid, kid.
g. Then came the water, and quench'd the fire,
That burned the staff,
That beat the dog,
That bit the cat,
That ate the kid,
That my father bought
For two pieces OF money
A kid, kid.
7. Then came the OK, and drank the water,
That quenched the fire,
That burned the staff,
That beat the dog,
That bit the cat
That ate the kid,
That my father bought
For two pieces OF money:
kid, a kid.
Then came the butcher and slew the OK,
That drank the water,
That quenched the fire,
That burned the staff,
That beat the dog,
That bit the cat,
s. That ate the kid,
That my father bought
For two pieces of money:
A kid, a kid.
o. Then came the angel of death and killed the
butcher,
That slew the OK,
That drank the water,
That quenched the fire,
That burned the staff,
That beat the dog,
That bit the cat,
That ate the kid,
That my father bought
For two pieces of money.
A kid, a kid.
10. Then came the Holy One, blessed be h.
And killed the angel Of death,
That killed the butcher,
That slew the OK,
That drank the water,
That quenched the fire,
That burned the staff,
That beat the dog,
That bit the cat,
That ate the kid,
That my father bought,
For two pieces OF money
A kid, kid.
The following is the Interpretation
|. The kid, which is one of the pure ami
mails, denotes the Hebrews. The father by
whom it was purchased is Jehovah, who
represents himself as sustaining this rela-
ton to the Hebrew nation. The pieces OF
money signify Moses and Aaron, through
whose mediation the Hebrews were brought
out of Egypt.
2. The cat denotes the Assyrians, by
whom the Ten Tribes were carried into
captivity.
3. The dog is symbolical of the Baby
lonians.
4. The staff signifed the Persians.
5. The fire indicates the Grecian Empire
under Alexander the Great.
6. The water betokens the Roman or the
fourth of the great monarehies to whom the
Jews were subjected.
7. The OK is a symbol of the Saracens,
who subdued Palestine, and brought it
under the caliphate.
s. The butcher that killed the OK denotes
the Crusaders by whom the Holy Land was
wrested out of the hands of the Saracens.
9. The angel of death signifies the Turk
ish power, by which the land OF Palestine
was taken from the Franks, to whom it is
still subject.
10. The commencement of the tenth
stanza is designed to show that God will
take signal vengeance on the Turks, i'm
mediately after whose overthrow the Jews
are to be restored to their own land and
live under the government of their long
expected Messiah. London Congrega-
tional Magazine.