 | William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck - 1911 - 376 pages
...and smooth and sharp? To me 't is mighty clear This wonder of an Elephant Is very like a spear !" 4 The Third approached the animal, And happening to...squirming trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up and spake : "I see," quoth he, "the Elephant Is very like a snake !" 5 The Fourth reached out his eager hand.... | |
 | James William Searson, George Ellsworth Martin - 1912 - 380 pages
...of the tusk Cried : " Ho ! what have we here, So very round, and smooth, and sharp? To me 't is very clear, This wonder of an elephant Is very like a spear...The squirming trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up he spake : " I see," quoth he, " the elephant Is very like a snake ! " The fourth reached out his eager... | |
 | John Walter Davis - 1913 - 418 pages
...and smooth, and sharp? To me 'tis very clear, This wonder of an elephant Is very like a spear!" 355 And, happening to take The squirming trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up he spake: "I see," quoth he, "the elephant Is very like a snake!" The fourth reached out his eager... | |
 | Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - 1914 - 254 pages
...tusk, Cried: "Ho! what have we here, So very round, and smooth, and sharp? To me 't is very clear, The third approached the animal, And, happening to...The squirming trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up he spake: "I see," quoth he, "the elephant Is very like a snake!" "What most this wondrous beast is... | |
 | Ella Flagg Young, Walter Taylor Field - 1915 - 392 pages
...and smooth and sharp ? To me 'tis mighty clear This wonder of an elephant Is very like a spear! " 1n The third approached the animal And happening to take...squirming trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up and spake : "I see," quoth he, "the elephant 15 Is very like a snake ! " The fourth reached out his eager hand... | |
 | 1916 - 204 pages
...feeling of the tusk, Cried: "Ho! what have we here So very round and smooth and sharp? To me, 'tis very clear, This wonder of an elephant Is very like a spear!"...The squirming trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up he spake: "I see," quoth he, "the elephant Is very like a snake!" The fourth reached out his eager... | |
 | Franklin Benjamin Dyer, Mary J. Brady - 1916 - 332 pages
...of the tusk, Cried, " Ho ! what have we here, So very round, and smooth, and sharp ? To me 'tis very clear, This wonder of an elephant Is very like a spear!"...The squirming trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up he spake : "I see," quoth he, "the elephant Is very like a snake!" 132 FOURTH READER The fourth reached... | |
 | Milton Chase Potter, Harry Jewett Jeschke, Harry Orrin Gillet - 1917 - 386 pages
...the elephant And, happening to fall Against his broad and sturdy side, At once began to bawl : " Oh, bless me ! but the elephant Is very like a wall !...squirming trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up and spake : " I see," quoth he, " the elephant Is very like a snake ! " " What most this wondrous beast is like... | |
 | Harriet Taylor Treadwell, Margaret Free, Thomas Henry Briggs, Henry William Shryock - 1918 - 392 pages
...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...trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up and spake: "I see," quoth he, "the Elephant Is very like a snake!" The Fourth reached out his eager hand, And... | |
 | 1918 - 2030 pages
...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...trunk within his hands, Thus boldly up and spake: "I see," quoth he, "the Elephant Is very like a snake!" The Fourth reached out an eager hand, And felt... | |
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God bless me! but the Elephant Is very like a wall!" The Second, feeling of the tusk, Cried, "Ho! what have we here So very round and smooth and sharp? To me 'tis mighty clear This wonder of an Elephant Is very like a spear! 
