The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature of All Times and Nations, Zväzok 4Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley Gebbie Publishing Company, Limited, 1894 |
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... round the walls by night he'd creep , And through the crannies of the gates would peep . The trusty Guardians of myself and Wife Oft made the Ruffian scamper for dear life ; Once they did catch him , and well tanned his hide , He got ...
... round the walls by night he'd creep , And through the crannies of the gates would peep . The trusty Guardians of myself and Wife Oft made the Ruffian scamper for dear life ; Once they did catch him , and well tanned his hide , He got ...
Strana 12
... round with a strange sort of dizziness , Were busied , finding respite from their blows ; As he thought o'er the whole perplexing busi- Managed to scramble to the river's brim ; And in he rolled ; but not with hopes to swim ; For life a ...
... round with a strange sort of dizziness , Were busied , finding respite from their blows ; As he thought o'er the whole perplexing busi- Managed to scramble to the river's brim ; And in he rolled ; but not with hopes to swim ; For life a ...
Strana 16
... round and fell on her behind ; And not without full many a bitter scoff , For all she'd done he amply paid her off . He found Dame Gieremund was not at home : " God bless you , my Stepchildren dear : " Wearied with vengeance , if not ...
... round and fell on her behind ; And not without full many a bitter scoff , For all she'd done he amply paid her off . He found Dame Gieremund was not at home : " God bless you , my Stepchildren dear : " Wearied with vengeance , if not ...
Strana 24
... round ; Great was their trouble , and their pain pro- found ; Martin the Ape , Greybeard , and many more , Who to the hapless Culprit kindred bore ' Tis cause for anxious thought and deepest care How we his num'rous friends from Court ...
... round ; Great was their trouble , and their pain pro- found ; Martin the Ape , Greybeard , and many more , Who to the hapless Culprit kindred bore ' Tis cause for anxious thought and deepest care How we his num'rous friends from Court ...
Strana 29
... round on ev'ry side : Thought himself safe , perceiving no one near , And then began his games , as you shall hear . The hole with sand he filled , and all around He levelled skilfully th ' adjacent ground ; Nor was this all ; before he ...
... round on ev'ry side : Thought himself safe , perceiving no one near , And then began his games , as you shall hear . The hole with sand he filled , and all around He levelled skilfully th ' adjacent ground ; Nor was this all ; before he ...
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Strana 339 - Hahnsum kerridge' they called it then. Eighteen hundred and twenty came ; Running as usual ; much the same. Thirty and forty at last arrive, And then come fifty, and FIFTY-FIVE. Little of all we value here Wakes on the morn of its hundredth year Without both feeling and looking queer, In fact, there's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth.
Strana 295 - John, he cried, But John he cried in vain ; That trot became a gallop soon, In spite of curb and rein.
Strana 297 - And thus unto the youth she said That drove them to the Bell, "This shall be yours when you bring back My husband safe and well." The youth did ride, and soon did meet John coming back amain, Whom in a trice he tried to stop By catching at his rein. • But not performing what he meant, And gladly would have done, The frighted steed he frighted more, And made him faster run. Away went Gilpin, and away Went post-boy at his heels, The post-boy's horse right glad to miss The lumbering of the wheels.
Strana 338 - He would build one shay to beat the taown 'n' the keounty 'n' all the kentry raoun' ; It should be so built that it couldn' break daown . — " Fur," said the Deacon, " 't's mighty plain Thut the weakes' place mus' stan the strain ; 'n' the way t' fix it, uz I maintain, Is only jest T" make that place uz strong uz the rest.
Strana 295 - Now Mistress Gilpin (careful soul) Had two stone bottles found, To hold the liquor that she loved, And keep it safe and sound. Each bottle had a curling ear, Through which the belt he drew, And hung a bottle on each side, To make his balance true. Then over all, that he might be Equipp'd from top to toe, His long red cloak, well brush'd and neat, He manfully did throw.
Strana 294 - JOHN GILPIN was a citizen Of credit and renown, A trainband captain eke was he Of famous London town. John Gilpin's spouse said to her dear, Though wedded we have been These twice ten tedious years, yet we No holiday have seen. To-morrow is our wedding day, And we will then repair Unto the Bell at Edmonton All in a chaise and pair.
Strana 338 - That couldn't be split nor bent nor broke, — That was for spokes and floor and sills; He sent for lancewood to make the thills, The cross-bars were ash, from the straightest trees, The panels of white-wood, that cuts like cheese, But lasts like iron for things like these; The hubs of logs from the "Settler's ellum...
Strana 338 - ... em, Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died. That was the way he 'put her through.
Strana 339 - And the back-crossbar as strong as the fore, And spring and axle and hub encore. And yet, as a whole, it is past a doubt In another hour it will be worn out ! First of November, 'Fifty-five ! This morning the parson takes a drive.
Strana 296 - Until he came unto the Wash Of Edmonton so gay; And there he threw the Wash about On both sides of the way, Just like unto a trundling mop, Or a wild goose at play. At Edmonton his loving wife From the balcony spied Her tender husband, wondering much To see how he did ride. "Stop, stop, John Gilpin!— Here's the house !" They all at once did cry; "The dinner waits, and we are tired;"— Said Gilpin, "So am I!