rebus

[Laurence Horn]

At 12:02 PM -0500 3/25/02, sagehen wrote:
>I sent Mark Mandel my reading of the rebus in his yesterday's post, and
>then later ran across the first two lines in the chapter on rebuses in /The
>Oxford Guide toWord Games/, 1984, which says : "Every schoolchild used to
>know this rebus"........ which might be true in England, but probably not
>here.
>A. Murie

Hey, Mark, are you going to solve it for the rest of us?  (Yes, I can
figure out the last line; it's just the first three that are stumping
me.)
larry