Where have I gotten this saying from because friends, work colleagues and the like seem to think I've made it up. But I've been saying it for a while now and thought that I MUST have picked it up from somewhere??
I've done a search on kid's nursery rhymes etc to no avail...I need to prove that it isn't some random thing I've come up with myself!
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Moral: If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. And always take the complimentary food.
An industrious hen on a farm in Connecticut spotted a bag of rye. She planned to make bread.
"Who will help me?" the hen asked. "Not I," answered the fox, shouting from the window of the Barnyard Sun Casino and Resort, where he was playing the slots.
The hen carried the bag to her kitchen: "Who will help me mix the rye?" "Not I," said the fox.
The hen mixed and asked, "Who will help me bake it?" "Not I," shouted the fox.
The hen kneaded the dough and placed it in the oven. When it was ready, she asked, "Who will help me eat it?" She expected the fox would say, "I will." Then she would have rebuked him for greed, sloth, and abandoning Western values.
But just then, a hostess brought the fox a free drink, for he was a preferred customer. He forgot about the bread and drank on the house. That night, he won most of his money back on video poker.
i have heard that somewhere too. the only thing coming to mind is Chicken Little, but i dont think im rite
The story is called The Little Red Hen. She finds a grain of wheat and asks who will help her plant it. "Not I," say the duck, cat, and dog (according to the version in my son's book). She asks who will help her cut it, thresh it, turn it to flour, and make the bread. The duck, cat and dog all reply, "Not I." But all volunteer to help her eat the bread. I think the story I heard as a child also had a fox in it, but the one I'm looking at right now doesn't happen to.
Well, you don't have it quite right, but you did have it from somewhere! It's from the story The Little Red Hen, and all her so-called friends kept saying "Not I" when asked to help, but a fox was not one of them. She kept asking her friends to help with the work, which they wouldn't, but when she had good food and they didn't, then she wouldn't share, because they didn't help fix it. A website with the story is at http://www.bres.boothbay.k12.me.us/wq/nn...
Maybe from The Little Red Hen story - there isn't a fox in it that I know of, but when she asks questions of the other animals - they each reply "not I, said the dog" (or whatever animal)
well it reminds me of a book i read the little red hen when she asked her friends (a dog,pig etc) to help her baked a bread she asked "who will help me bake this bread?"n her fiends replied "not i" said the dog,"not i "said the pig n all her friends so maybe u read that book n just didn't remember it went something like that maybe you should read it
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