A hunter is turned away at the gate by its owner, gun and hound and all, in a rhyme built around a proper huff of a comeback. Reigate is a real Surrey town, which gives the joke a rooted, English feel.
From Mother Goose / Nursery Rhymes (traditional). See the whole collection.
A man went a-hunting at Reigate,
And wished to leap over a high gate.
Says the owner, "Go round,
With your gun and your hound,
For you never shall leap over my gate."
Public domain. Text from The Real Mother Goose (Blanche Fisher Wright, 1916), via Project Gutenberg. View the source edition
