So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. `What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.
Source: Nonsense, quoted by Maria Edgeworth in Harry and Lucy Concluded.
-- Samuel Foote, (Jan 27 1720-1777), English dramatist, comedian, author; The English Aristophanes was a one-legged comedian who starred in Lame Lover, 1770 and mimicked prominent persons; wrote The Minor, 1760.