"In the English nursery rhyme ""Hickory Dickory Dock"", what ran up the clock?"
Hickory Dickory Dock Hickory Dickory Dock "Hickory Dickory Dock" or "Hickety Dickety Dock" is a popular English nursery rhyme. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 6489. The most common modern version is: <poem> Hickory, dickory, dock. The mouse ran up the clock. The clock struck one, The mouse ran down, Hickory, dickory, dock.</poem> Other variants include "down the mouse ran" or "down the mouse run" or "and down he ran" or "and down he run" in place of "the mouse ran down". <score vorbis="1"> \new Staff « \clef treble \key d \major { %\new Lyrics \lyricmode { » </score> The
Hickory Dickory Dock (novel) already bludgeoned Patricia. The green ink was a double-bluff intended to divert suspicion away from him. Valerie is willing to incriminate Nigel fully because Mrs Nicoletis was actually her mother. The title is taken, as are other of Christie's titles, from a nursery rhyme: "Hickory Dickory Dock". This is nevertheless one of her most tenuous links to the original nursery rhyme, consisting of little more than the name of a road. Philip John Stead's review in the "Times Literary Supplement" of 23 December 1955 began: "Poirot's return to the happy hunting grounds of detective fiction is something of an event.