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" And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard as if an army muttered: And the muttering grew to a grumbling; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling, And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny... "
Stories and Tales from the Animal World - Page 216
by Emma M. C. Greenleaf - 1901 - 243 pages
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - 1832 - 1022 pages
...the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats. Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers; Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives...
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Punch, Volumes 16-17

1849 - 564 pages
...of bacon, and cheese, and butter. Consider the many-sorted rats abo\mding in the Establishment, — "Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 1

1865 - 820 pages
...mighty rumbling : And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats,brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats,...young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives...
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The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical ..., Volume 11

1846 - 534 pages
...Piper of Hamelin.' We cannot refrain from an extract. ' Out of the houses the rats came tumbling ; Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking...
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Poems: A blot in the 'scutcheon

Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...grumbling ; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...grumbliiig ; And the grumbling grow to a mighty rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown...young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tins and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives...
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The Dial, Volume 1

Moncure Daniel Conway - 1860 - 786 pages
...the rats came tumbling : Great rats, small rate, lean rats, brawny rate, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, eousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands,...
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A First Class Reader: Consisting of Extracts, in Prose and Verse, with ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1861 - 562 pages
...grumbling ; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown...young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Curling tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives...
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Poetry for School and Home, from the best authors. Edited by T. Shorter

Thomas SHORTER - 1861 - 226 pages
...grumbling ; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking...
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Temple Bar, Volume 39

1873 - 618 pages
...grumbling ; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young pickers, fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking...
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