In this variation on the traditional cumulative rhyme, a monster swallows ants, a lizard, a bat, and other creatures to try to cure a stomach ache than began when he swallowed a tick.
As a couple strolls through town on Christmas Eve, the man buys gift after gift for the woman he loves, and after arriving at a Christmas party so magnificent it is overwhelming, they slip back to their own quiet home.
An illustrated version of the cumulative folk song in which the solution proves worse that the predicament when a cowpoke swallows an ant with a sting the size of Texas.
