In the nursery rhyme Jack and Jill When it says they went up the hill

Question

To fetch a pail of water, Doesnt water run down hill, What was water doing at the top of a hill, I just dont understand that,

Jack and jill could have saved themselves a broken crown if they had just gone down to the river.

Answer 1

From what I understand the well was at the top of the hill.  Also, water starts from the top of a hill.  Possibly from a spring.  Some people believe that water is purer from its source.

If Jack and Jill hadn't gone up there we wouldn't have that nursery rhyme.

Answer 2

This story is very weird all by itself. First off Jack and Jill went up a hill to fetch a pail of water. One might ask, why was a pail or water at the top of a hill, and... who put it there, and why did he or she put it there? Then Jack fell down, and broke his crown and Jill came tumbling after. I mean come on, this is only a hill. The only possible conclusion is that Jack and Jill were Toddlers, and too young to travel the hill while carrying a pale of water.  I think Mother Goose was just a bit too bored, and decided to play a trick on a couple of children. The crown was simply a crayon and broke when poor Jack fell down. And don't even get me started on Little Miss Muffet!

Answer 3

The real question is, why is Jack wearing a crown when he's going to fetch water? And where the heck is Jill's tiara?

Answer 4

Yeah!  Don't you just hate it when nursery rhymes are unrealistic?  I mean, a cow jumping over the moon!! What's up with that?!

Answer 5

It goes:

"Jack and Jill went up the hill to fetch a pale of water"

This means that their was a well and they got a bucket and wile going down with the water they fell..

haha this question made me laugh but you did make a good point!

i got a little confused myself<3!

Answer 6

밑바닥 헌납자 is right.  You have the watered down version of the poem.  It originally went like this:

Jack and Jill

went up the hill

to have a little fun.

Silly Jill

forgot her pill

and now they have a son.

Answer 7

Jack broke his crown by boinking Jill who was mumbling afterwards.

Answer 8

They're probably going to a well. That's why he has a pail, or a bucket.

Answer 9

The crown is part of the head.

Answer 10

The water is in a well. pail means bucket. so therefore there is definitely a well.

Answer 11

Water is fresher up stream than down stream.

In the nursery rhyme book pictures I remember it seems that they went to the top of the hill where the well was.  

AND... Hill rhymes with Jill....

Don't think about this too much. It's just a poem someone wrote.