A cheeky little rhyme about tripping up a bandy-legged stranger on the way to sell eggs. Short, silly, and a bit mischievous.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
As I was going to sell my eggs
I met a man with bandy legs,
Bandy legs and crooked toes;
I tripped up his heels, and he fell on his nose.
About this rhyme
A cheeky little narrative rhyme, more mischief than moral. Someone off to sell eggs meets a man with bandy legs and crooked toes and simply trips him up. It has the shape of a playground taunt, best said with a grin rather than any real sympathy for the man on his nose.
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition