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" There's a boy we pretend, with a three-decker brain, That could harness a team with a logical chain; When he spoke for our manhood in syllabled fire, We called him "The Justice, "
The Professor at the Breakfast-table: With the Story of Iris - Page 60
by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1860 - 410 pages
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A Hand-book of English and American Literature: Historical and Critical ...

Esther J. Trimble Lippincott - 1884 - 536 pages
...written a wonderful book. And the ROYAL SOCIETY thought it was true! So they chose him right in,—a good joke it was too! There's a boy, we pretend, with a three-decker brain, That could harness a team with a logical chain ; When he spoke for our manhood...
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Select Readings for Public and Private Entertainment: Containing Choice ...

1885 - 332 pages
...mathematical look Made believe he had written a wonderful book, And the Royal Society thought it was true! So they chose him right in, — a good joke it was too! There's a boy, we pretend, with a three-decker brain, That could harness a team with a logical chain ; When he spoke for our manhood...
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Swinton's First [-sixth] Reader, Book 6

William Swinton - 1885 - 620 pages
...chaff (a corruption of the verb. 524 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES. And the ROYAL SOCIETY thought it was true! So they chose him right in, — a good joke it was too! There's a boy, we pretend, with a three-decker brain,1 That could harness a team with a logical chain; When he spoke for our manhood...
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Sixth Or Classic English Reader

William Swinton - 1885 - 624 pages
...make fun of, or plain. I ridicule, by light idle language. And the ROYAL SOCIETY thought it was true! So they chose him right in, — a good joke it was too! There's a boy, we pretend, with a three-decker brain,1 That could harness a team with a logical chain ; When he spoke for our manhood...
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Good Selections, in Prose and Poetry, for Use in Schools and Academies, Home ...

1885 - 180 pages
...written a wonderful book, And the Royal Society thought it was true I So they chose him right in,—-a good joke it was too ! There's a boy, we pretend, with a. three-decker brain, That could harness a team with a logical chain ; When he spoke for our manhood...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes: With Illustrations

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1887 - 410 pages
...mathematical look Made believe he had written a wonderful book, And the ROYAL SOCIETY thought it was true I So they chose him right in ; a good joke it was, too ! There 'sa boy, we pretend, with a threedecker brain, POEMS OF THE CLASS OF '29. When he spoke for...
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Classic Selections from the Best Authors

Samuel Silas Curry - 1888 - 456 pages
...his name 1 — don't make me laugh 264 CLASSIC SELECTIONS. And the Royal Society thought it was true! So they chose him right in, —a good joke it was, too' There 'a a boy, we pretend^ with a three-decker brain, That could harness a team with a logical chain;...
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The Elocutionist's Annual ...: Comprising New and Popular Readings ..., Issue 1

1889 - 236 pages
...mathematical look Made believe he had written a wonderful book, And the Royal Society thought it was true ! So they chose him right in, — a good joke it was too. There's a boy, we pretend, with a three-decker brain, That could harness a team with a logical chain ; When he spoke for our manhood...
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Best Things from Best Authors...

1890 - 632 pages
...mathematical look Made believe he had written a wonderful book, And the Royal Society thought it was true ! So they chose him right in, — a good joke it was too. There's a boy, we pretend, with a three-decker brain, That could harness a team with a logical chain ; When he spoke for our manhood...
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The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes

Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1890 - 362 pages
...mathematical look Made believe he had written a wonderful book, And the ROYAL SOCIETY thought it was true t So they chose him right in ; a good joke it was, too ! There 'sa boy, we pretend, with a threedecker brain, That could harness a team with a logical chain...
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