 We've a trick, we young fellows, you may have been told, Of talking (in public) as if we were old! That boy we call "Doctor" and this we call "Judge", It's a neat little fiction — of course it's all fudge.  The professor at the breakfast-tabel - Page 49by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1892 - 500 pages
...Rich as the priceless draught shall be That wet the bride of Cana's lip, — THE BOYS THE BOYS 1859 HAS there any old fellow got mixed with the boys?...young fellows, you may have been told, Of talking (hi public) as if we were old : — That boy we call "Doctor," and this we call POEMS OF THE CLASS... | |
 | 1896 - 762 pages
...twenty?"— Tes, white, If we please; Where the snowflakos fall thickest there's nothing can freeze. Was It snowing I spoke of? Excuse the mistake; Look...of a flake. We want some new garlands for those we hav« shed, And these are white roses In place of th? red. And here's to our boyhood, Its gold and... | |
 | John W. Iliff - 1893 - 616 pages
...twenty?" — Yes! .white if you please; Where the snow.flakes fall thickest there's nothing can freeze! Was it snowing I spoke of? Excuse the mistake! Look...shed, And these are white roses in place of the red. We've a trick, we young fellows, you may have been told, Of talking (in public) as if we were old ;... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1895 - 390 pages
...tipsy, — young jackanapes ! — sho» him the door ! " Gray temples at twenty ? " — Yes ! «Me if we please; Where the snow-flakes fall thickest...of the red. We 've a trick, we young fellows, you nay have been told, Of talking (in public) as if we were old: — That boy we call "Doctor," and this... | |
 | William Swinton, George Rhett Cathcart - 1880 - 238 pages
...? " — Yes ! white if we please : Where the snow-flakes fall thickest there's nothing can freeze ! Was it snowing I spoke of ? Excuse the mistake ! Look...— And these are white roses in place of the red. We've a trick, we young fellows, you may have been told, Of talking (in public) as if we were old :... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1896 - 398 pages
...(Jray temples at twenty ? " — Yes ! white if we please ; Where the snow-flakes fall thickest there's nothing can freeze I Was it snowing I spoke of? Excuse the mistake ! Look close, — you will nee not a sign of a flake ! We want some new garlands for those we have shed, — And these are white... | |
 | John Piersol McCaskey - 1897 - 592 pages
...twenty ?" — Yes ! white if we please ; Where snow-flakes fall thickest there's nothing can freeze! Was it snowing I spoke of? Excuse the mistake ! Look...shed, And these are white roses in place of the red. We've a trick, we young fellows, you may have been told, Of talking (in public) as if we were old;... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 582 pages
...twenty?" Yes, white, if we please ; Where the snowflakes fall thickest, there's nothing can freeze ! Was it snowing I spoke of ? Excuse the mistake ! Look...shed— And these are white roses in place of the red. We've a trick, we young fellows, you may have been told, Of talking (in public) as if we were old:... | |
 | Charles Noble - 1898 - 460 pages
...it snowing I spoke of ? Excuse the mistake ! 10 Look close, — you will see not a sign of a flake I We want some new garlands for those we have shed, — And these are white roses in place of the red. We've a trick, we young fellows, you may have been told, Of talking (in public) as if we were old :... | |
 | Harry Cassell Davis, John Cloyse Bridgman - 1899 - 390 pages
...snow-flakes fall thickest there's nothing can freeze ! Was it snowing I spoke of ? Excuse the mistake I Look close, — you will see not a sign of a flake...— And these are white roses in place of the red. We've a trick, we young fellows, you may have been told, Of talking (in public) as if we were old ;... | |
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