From Holly Black's "Valiant: A Modern Tale of Faerie"
"One fine day in the middle of the night
Two dead boys got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other,
Pulled out their swords and shot one another.
The deaf cop on the beat
Heard the noise
And came and shot
The two dead boys."
This page offers a composite of four verses of this rhyme (with the pearls like "A great deal of electronic mail has been sent to us about the rhyme since we first uploaded this page." and the likes)
"You knew I couldn't do it," - she accused Lolli. "Didn't you?"
Lolli shrugged. "Better to find out now. It's a long way to go just to come back."
Val nodded, afraid in a new, acute way. For the first time she realized that she might never be ready to go home.
Two dead boys got up to fight.
Back to back they faced each other,
Pulled out their swords and shot one another.
The deaf cop on the beat
Heard the noise
And came and shot
The two dead boys."
This page offers a composite of four verses of this rhyme (with the pearls like "A great deal of electronic mail has been sent to us about the rhyme since we first uploaded this page." and the likes)
"You knew I couldn't do it," - she accused Lolli. "Didn't you?"
Lolli shrugged. "Better to find out now. It's a long way to go just to come back."
Val nodded, afraid in a new, acute way. For the first time she realized that she might never be ready to go home.