 You elegant fowl, How charmingly sweet you sing! Oh! let us be married; too long we have tarried: But what shall we do for a ring?  A fourth reader - Page 125by William Iler Crane, William Henry Wheeler - 1919Full view - About this book
 | Charles Herbert Sylvester - 1922 - 526 pages
...elegant fowl! How wonderful sweet you sing! Oh, let us be married — too long we have tarriedThey sailed away for a year and a day To the land where the Bong-tree grows, And there in a wood a piggy-wig stood With a ring in the end of his nose — His nose, With a ring in the end of... | |
 | Marion Ames Taggart - 1922 - 314 pages
..."But he will not go on this summer; not this summer and perhaps not for much longer. Maybe we'll 'sail away for a year and a day to the land where the bong-tree grows'! Maybe we'll go abroad. Would that be too hard on you, Casabianca dear? You'd always stand by? Would... | |
 | 1924 - 902 pages
...craft to the land where the Bong-tree grows — a region not noted for jewelry, and yet "there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood, with a ring at the end of his nose." The Owl had brought along plenty of money, as a man always must, even if he is only starting out for... | |
 | Olive Beaupré Miller - 1928 - 456 pages
...sweet you sing! Oh! let us be married! too long we have tarried; But what shall we do for a ring?" They sailed away, for a year and a day, To the land where the bong- tree grows: And there in a wood a Piggy- wig stood, With a ring in the end of his nose. "Dear... | |
 | Miriam Blanton Huber, Herbert Bascom Bruner, Charles Madison Curry - 1926 - 168 pages
...sweet you sing! Oh! let us be married; too long we have tarried : But what shall we do for a ring?" They sailed away, for a year and a day, To the land where the bong-tree grows; And there in a wood a Piggy- wig stood, With a ring in the end of his nose, His nose, His nose, With a ring in the... | |
 | Louis Untermeyer - 1926 - 412 pages
...charmingly sweet you sing! O let us be married! too long we have tarried: But what shall we do for a ring? " They sailed away for a year and a day, To the land where the Bong-tree grows, And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood, With a ring at the end of his nose, His nose, With a ring at the end of his... | |
 | Hazel Gertrude Kinscella - 1928 - 394 pages
...English money, worth about twenty-five dollars. To the land where the Bong tree grows; And there in a wood, a piggy-wig stood With a ring at the end of his nose, — His nose, With a ring at the end of his nose. "Dear Pig, are you willing to sell for one shilling Your ring?"... | |
 | Charles Henry Woolbert, Severina Elaine Nelson - 1927 - 408 pages
...sweet you sing! Oh! let us be married; too long we have tarried: But what shall we do for a ring?" They sailed away, for a year and a day, To the land where the bong-tree grows; And there in a wood a Piggy-wig stood, With a ring at the end of his nose. His nose. His nose. With a ring at the... | |
 | 1997 - 560 pages
...you sing! Oh! let us be married; too long we have tarried: But what shall we do for a ring? Chorus: They sailed away, for a year and a day, To the land where the bong-tree grows; (Owl and Pussy Cat begin to row. This they do for a while, then leave the rest and walk towards the... | |
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