carving knife
The farmer's wife cut off the tails of the three blind mice, using a carving knife. This would be regarded as animal cruelty outside of the context of the traditional nursery rhyme.
The farmer's wife.
Their tails. Three Blind Mice See how they run They all run after the farmer's wife Who cut off their tails with a carving knife You never saw such a thing in your life As three blind mice.
"She cut off their tails with a carving knife."
And cut off the tails with a carving knife.
The modern words are:Three blind mice, three blind miceSee how they run. See how they run.They all ran after the farmer's wife,Who cut off their tails with a carving knife,Did you ever see such a sight in your life, As three blind mice?
They ran after the Farmer's Wife, who cut off their tails with a carving knife.
In the nursery rhyme "Three Blind Mice," the phrase "rubbed rubbed away" refers to the mice's tails being cut off ("Their tails were snipped by the farmer's wife, she cut them off as clean as life"). The rubbing away could signify the removal of the tails in a swift or forceful manner.
Three blind mice, Three blind mice, See how they run, See how they run, They all ran after the farmers wife who cut off their tails with a carving knife Did you ever see such a thing in your life as three blind mice
They ran after the Farmer's Wife, who cut off their tails with a carving knife.
Darvin
Three blind mice. See how they run. They all ran after the farmers wife. She cut off their tails with a carving knife.