The old farm pump is frozen tight, It must have happened in the night When Mr. North Wind fierce and chill, Came blowing down the big high hill.
Goodness me! When the kind-hearted farmer got up in the morning after Cocky Doodles had sung his cock-a-doodle-do song and went out to pump some water, he couldn't get any. No, siree. There was a big icicle hanging from the pump spout, and the water wouldn't come out. So he cracked off the icicle and went back into the kitchen for a pail of hot water to pour down the old pump, and after that the water came out of the spout and Mrs. Cow got a drink of water, although she had to wait until the clock struck half-past eight.
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