Tom Hood's Comic Readings in Prose and Verse: A Companion to Carpenter's Penny ReadingsF. Warne, 1869 - 252 страница |
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... morning was tripping , With a pitcher of milk from the fair of Coleraine , When she saw me she stumbled , the pitcher it tumbled , And all the sweet butter - milk watered the plain . " Oh , what shall I do now , ' twas looking at you ...
... morning was tripping , With a pitcher of milk from the fair of Coleraine , When she saw me she stumbled , the pitcher it tumbled , And all the sweet butter - milk watered the plain . " Oh , what shall I do now , ' twas looking at you ...
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... morning ; it takes me a good hour to get myself up for the day ; and we don't shut up until ten o'clock at night ; so you see my profes- sional duties are very confining , and a real , live African gorilla is not supposed to have first ...
... morning ; it takes me a good hour to get myself up for the day ; and we don't shut up until ten o'clock at night ; so you see my profes- sional duties are very confining , and a real , live African gorilla is not supposed to have first ...
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... morning , and Jack was caged until the hour at which I went to work , it was not easy for us to meet . So we exchanged the salutations of the day and a few scraps of news by using our old signals , learned long ago in the telegraph ...
... morning , and Jack was caged until the hour at which I went to work , it was not easy for us to meet . So we exchanged the salutations of the day and a few scraps of news by using our old signals , learned long ago in the telegraph ...
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... morning dew , And rested late to catch the evening too ; With soughs and troughs he laboured to enrich The rising pond from every neighbouring ditch ; With soughs , and troughs , and pipes , and cuts , and sluices , From growing plants ...
... morning dew , And rested late to catch the evening too ; With soughs and troughs he laboured to enrich The rising pond from every neighbouring ditch ; With soughs , and troughs , and pipes , and cuts , and sluices , From growing plants ...
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... morning in the early part of November - one of those mornings which almost insure a scent - Ned had taken it into his head to be one of us . The hounds , with his eldest brother hunting them , were in a large patch of turnips , which ...
... morning in the early part of November - one of those mornings which almost insure a scent - Ned had taken it into his head to be one of us . The hounds , with his eldest brother hunting them , were in a large patch of turnips , which ...
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African gorilla asked beast began Bilgewater Billy Jenkins black crows Bovey boys Brereton Brown cage Captain Reece clock Coriander's Corporal cried dear Dick dinner door Edard Elburg eyes father fellow figure fire gen'men girl give good-natured gorilla Hackmatack hand head heard heart Ichabod Jack Jack Gale Juliet knees knew legs live looked Marronettes marry matter menagerie mind Miss Tryphosa morning never night old Coriander once Pang Pangloss Pankatcherly pendulum pipe Polly Hopkins pond poor pretty proud Romeo Romeo and Juliet ronette round Sally Brown says sentry-box Seth Shannon shore soon stood story Stout Gentleman strings sure tell there's thing thou thought thro throth told TOM HOOD took town turned Twas Uncle Toby Uncle Toby's walk wife wild Woerden woman young lady Zenobia Zounds
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Страница 134 - Or catch'd wi' warlocks in the mirk By Alloway's auld haunted kirk. Ah, gentle dames ! it gars me greet To think how mony counsels sweet, How mony lengthen'd sage advices, The husband frae the wife despises ! But to our tale : Ae market night, Tam had got planted unco right, Fast by an ingle, bleezing finely, Wi...
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Страница 86 - To learning much inclined, Who went to see the elephant (Though all of them were blind), That each by observation Might satisfy his mind. The First approached the Elephant, And happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl : " God bless me! — but the Elephant Is very like a wall...
Страница 87 - The Fifth, who chanced to touch the ear, Said: "E'en the blindest man Can tell what this resembles most; Deny the fact who can, This marvel of an elephant Is very like a fan!" The Sixth no sooner had begun About the beast to grope, Than, seizing on the swinging tail That fell within his scope, "I see," quoth he, "the elephant Is very like a rope!
Страница 133 - Whare sits our sulky, sullen dame, Gathering her brows like gathering storm, Nursing her wrath to keep it warm. This truth fand honest Tam o...
Страница 151 - All the stories of ghosts and goblins that he had heard in the afternoon, now came crowding upon his recollection. The night grew darker and darker ; the stars seemed to sink deeper in the sky, and driving clouds occasionally hid them from his sight. He had never felt so lonely and dismal.
Страница 133 - Tam ! hadst thou but been sae wise, As ta'en thy ain wife Kate's advice ! She tauld thee weel thou was a skellum, A blethering, blustering, drunken blellum ; That frae November till October, Ae market-day thou was nae sober ; That ilka melder, wi...
Страница 145 - ... together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield.
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