Three Blind Mice lost. "Festal Dance" (1908) formed the finale, depicting the wild dance of triumph of the farmer's wife in which passing references to the tune can be heard. Having been performed separately, the first and last movements became independent works around 1914. The theme of the second movement of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 4 (1926, revised 1928 and 1941) was criticized as resembling "Three Blind Mice". Three Blind Mice "Three Blind Mice" is an English-language nursery rhyme and musical round. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3753. The modern words are: Published by Frederick Warne & Co.,
Appley Dapply's Nursery Rhymes book would be raided again in 1922 to compile a collection of nursery rhymes called "Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes" as a companion to "Appley Dapply". The book opens with a three-stanza rhyme about Appley Dapply, a mouse who raids cupboards for treats, and is accompanied with three illustrations, one which depicts a little mouse running away from a cupboard with a tray of pies: The following rhyme tells of Peter Rabbit's sister, Cotton-tail, and her implied courtship by a little black rabbit who leaves a gift of carrots at her door. In "The Tale of Mr. Tod", Cotton-tail is married