Cameron
Cute rhyme. Came across a jump rope rhyme written by children in 1905 after word in police circles that Jack the Ripper had committed suicide and his body had been fished out of the Thames in December 1888.
Jack the Ripper's dead/And lying on his bed
He cut his throat with Sunlight soup/Jack the Ripper's dead.
Lore and Language of Schoolchildren(Oxford, Press, 1959) p.11
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