 | James Madison Watson - 1876 - 348 pages
...chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. S. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came...flocking : "'Tis clear," cried they, "our Mayor's a noddy;1 And as for our Corporation — shocking To think we buy gowns lined with ermine For dolts a... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1876 - 346 pages
...chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. 8. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came...flocking : "'Tis clear," cried they, "our Mayor's a noddy;1 And as for our Corporation — shocking To think we buy gowns lined with ermine For dolts2... | |
 | 1877 - 276 pages
...the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own- ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats,...the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking: " 'T is clear," cried they, " our Mayor 'sa noddy ; To think we buy gowns lined with ermine For dolts... | |
 | Mother Angela Gillespie - 1877 - 346 pages
...the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats,...and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. 3. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking-. "'Tis clear," cried they, "our Mayor's... | |
 | John Cunningham Geikie - 1877 - 424 pages
...the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats,...and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. [A piper comes and offers to the authorities to clear the town of rats for a certain reward.] Into... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pages
...the babies ill the eradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted .sprats,...men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats, l!y drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty dilfercut sharps ami flats. At last... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1878 - 460 pages
...the babies in the cradles, A nd ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats,...drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking Tn fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking :... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats,...drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking fn fifty different sharps and flats. ш. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking... | |
 | Phineas Garrett - 1878 - 874 pages
...cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup fn-in the cook's own ladles. Split open the kc<_rs of suited sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats, Bv drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and Hats. At last... | |
 | Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore - 1879 - 376 pages
...the babies in their cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats,...sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town-hall came flocking : ' 'Tis clear,' cried they, ' our Mayor's a noddy : And as for our Corporation—... | |
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And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the women's chats By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats.... 
