And the dish ran away with the spoon. Modern Farmer magazine, which is currently celebrating "Cow Week," took a good, hard look at the bovine portion of that rhyme. Tyler LeBlanc wrote this expose of ...

For Cow Week, NPR's Wade Goodwyn blows the lid off of a children's nursery rhyme. He talks to Modern Farmer correspondent Tyler LeBlanc about... Hey-Diddle, A Fiddle And A Moon-Jumping Cow? NPR Moos ...

Hey diddle diddle The cat and the fiddle The cow jumped over the moon. The little dog laughed To see such sport And the dish ran away with the spoon. Modern Farmer magazine, which is currently ...

Yes, indeed, cows can leap. Here, Regina Mayer jumps with her cow Luna — yes, Luna — over a hurdle in southern Germany, in 2011. And the dish ran away with the spoon. Modern Farmer magazine, which is ...