ID: 746
Date: 2002
Title: A doggie stole a sausage
Gender: Female 
Classification: Circular rhyme 
Rhyme: 

A doggie stole a sausage, 
When he was under-fed.
The butcher saw him take it, 
And now the poor dog's dead.
And all the little doggies, 
They gathered there that night,
They built a little tombstone,
And on it they did write.
A doggie stole a sausage, 
When he was under-fed.
(and continue on..circular rhyme)

(Auckland, 2002)

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Background Info: Similar to version in Turner, 1978:135:
 
A doggie stole a sausage,
Cause he was under-fed, 
The butcher saw him take it,
And now the doggie's dead. 
All the little doggies
Were very sad that night,
They built a little tombstone,
And on it they did write
A doggie...(continued)

(Victoria, c. 1948)

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Keywords: circular, never ending rhyme 
Location: Auckland 
Group size: 6 
Incidence: 1