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Cock Robin: tags: [literature]

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an English nursery rhyme, which has been much used as a murder archetype

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Who'll toll the bell?

I, said the Bull,

because I can pull,

I'll toll the bell.

Cock Robin

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"Oh!" said Mr. Jaggers, turning to the man, who was pulling a lock of hair in the middle of his forehead, like the Bull in Cock Robin pulling at the bell-rope;

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)

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There was one about four-and-twenty blackbirds, and another about a cow with a crumpled horn, and another about the death of poor Cock Robin.

George Orwell. 1984 (1949)