Patten (shoe) dung and human effluent (from chamber pots)– was usually thrown directly into the street (often with minimal advance warning). Making full foot contact with such an unpleasant surface was, understandably, highly undesirable. Thus, pattens tended to only make contact with the ground through two or three strips of wood and raised the wearer up considerably, sometimes by four inches (ten centimetres) or more in contrast to clogs which usually have a low, flat-bottomed sole integral to the shoe. A later pattern of patten which seems to date from the 17th century, and then became the most common, had a flat
There's a Hole in My Bucket I hone it, dear Liza, with what? But the stone is too dry, dear Liza, dear Liza, The stone is too dry, dear Liza, too dry. With what shall I wet it, dear Liza, dear Liza? With what shall I wet it, dear Liza, with what? In what shall I fetch it, dear Liza, dear Liza? In what shall I fetch it, dear Liza, in what? There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza, There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, a hole.</poem> The earliest known archetype of this song seems to be in the German collection