"There came a mouse into our corn-house, she seized the corn in our corn-house. The mouse, the corn, now all is lost in our corn-house." The other powers are rat, cat, fox, wolf, bear, man, maid. This piece, like _This is the House that Jack built_, ends abruptly. Among the less primitive variations of the tale is one recorded in Sonneberg (S., p. 102), and another in the north of France, which both substitute the name of Peter for that of Jack, that is a Christian name for a heathen one. In France the piece is called _La Mouche_, literally "the fly," but its contents indicate that not _mouche_ but the Latin _mus_ (mouse) was originally meant. The tale departs from the usual form, and has a refrain:-- Voici la maison que Pierre a bâtie, Il sortait un rat de sa raterie, Qui fit rentrer la mouch' dans sa moucherie: Rat à mouche, Belle, belle mouche Jamais je n'ai vu si belle mouche. (D.B., p. 116.) "This is the house that Peter built. A rat came out of a rat-hole, and made the fly go into the fly-hole. Rat to fly, lovely fly, never saw I so lovely a fly." The other powers are dog, bear, man, maid, abbot, pope, devil. The same tale is told in Austria (V., p. 113), and in Prussia (F., p. 197), where it is called _Das Haus vom hölzernen Mann_, "the house of the wooden Man." In Prussia it is recited as a game of forfeits. The sequence of the powers in the one version is house, door, lock, band, mouse, cat, dog, stick, fire, water, ox, butcher, devil; and in the other, house, door, lock, band, mouse, cat, huntsman. Jack in Germany is called Jockel, Jöggeli, Jokele. _The Master who sent out Jockel_ is mentioned already in the Gargantua of Fischart, which was published in 1575 (Chap. XXV.). The name Jack among ourselves is applied to a person or an object of peculiar serviceableness, as in Jack-of-all-trades, or boot-jack. But in Germany the expression "to send Jockel on an errand" implies that this will never get done. In Vogtland the current nursery version of this piece begins:-- Es schickt der Herr den Gȏkel 'naus, Er soll den Haber schneiden. (Du., p. 35.) "The master sent out Gokel to cut oats." As he failed to come back, dog, fire, water, ox, butcher, hangman, devil, were sent after him. In Swabia Jokele (Br., p. 44), and in Switzerland Joggeli, was sent to knock off pears on which a spell had fallen. The chant in Zürich has been traced back to the year 1769, and it begins:-- Es ist ein Baum im Gärtle hinne, d' Birren wänd nüd fallen. Do schückt de Bur de Joggeli usen Er soll di Birren schütteln. (R., p. 155.) "There is a tree in the garden, its pears will not drop. The peasant sent out Joggeli to knock them off." But the pears refused to be knocked off, and the usual sequence of powers was sent to secure them.