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" Five and twenty ponies Trotting through the dark Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk; Laces for a lady, letters for a spy, Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by! "
Songs from Books - Page 213
by Rudyard Kipling - 1912 - 249 pages
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The Bookman, Volume 48

Book collecting - 1919 - 858 pages
...thought. "Four and twenty blackbirds, baked in a pie", reappears here as a "Smugglers' Song": Four and twenty ponies, trotting through the dark, Brandy for the parson, baccy for the clerk. . . . It reappears to a far more serious purpose in the splendid lyric called "Cold Iron", which compresses...
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The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling, Volume 23

Rudyard Kipling - English literature - 1906 - 340 pages
...ponies, Trotting through the Park — Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk. 'Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie, Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by ! THE BEE BOY'S SONG Bees ! Bees ! Hark to the Bees! ' Hide from your neighbors as much as you please,...
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Puck of Pook's Hill, Volume 10

Rudyard Kipling - Great Britain - 1906 - 332 pages
...twenty ponies, Trotting through the Park — Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk. Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie. Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by! 'DYMCHURCH FLIT' THE BEE BOY'S SONG Bees! Bees! Hark to the Bees! ' Hide from your neighbours as much...
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Puck of Pook's Hill

Rudyard Kipling - Fiction - 1906 - 300 pages
...twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark — Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk. Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie — Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by! "DYMCHURCH FLIT.' THE BEE BOY'S SONG. Bees! Bees! Hark to your bees! " Hide from your neighbours as...
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Highways and Byways in Surrey

Eric Parker - Surrey (England) - 1908 - 482 pages
...twenty ponies Trotting through the dark — Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk. Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie — Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by ! lasted into the last decade. Mr. HE Maiden, the Surrey historian to whom all Surrey writers and readers...
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The Smugglers: Picturesque Chapters in the Story of an Ancient Craft

Charles George Harper - Biography & Autobiography - 1909 - 362 pages
...Romney, to turn their faces to the hedge-side, or to the wall, " when the gentlemen went by." And— If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet,...watch the wall, my darling, while the gentlemen go by. CHAPTER IV THE " MURDERS BY SMUGGLERS " IN HAMPSHIRE THE most outstanding chapter in the whole history...
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Puck of Pook's Hill, 1905-1906. Rewards and fairies

Rudyard Kipling - 1910 - 598 pages
...and hear a horse's feet, Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street. Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie. Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by I Five and twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark— Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk;...
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Highways and Byways in Kent

Walter Jerrold - Kent (England) - 1914 - 484 pages
...midnight and hear a horse's feet, Don't go drawing back the blind or looking in the street, Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie. Watch the wall, my...watch the wall, my darling, while the gentlemen go by."1 Fairfield Church, in a lonely part of the marsh country between Brookland and Appledore, is said...
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Puck of Pook's Hill

Rudyard Kipling - Fairy tales - 1917 - 296 pages
...twenty ponies, Trotting through the Park — Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk. Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie. Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by! •DYMCHURCH FLIT1 THE BEE BOY'S SONG Bees! Bees! Hark to the Bees! 'Hide from your neighbours as much...
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Rudyard Kipling's Verse

Rudyard Kipling - English poetry - 1919 - 806 pages
...With a cap of Valenciennes, and a velvet hood— A present from the Gentlemen, along o' being good! Five and twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark— Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk. Them that asks no questions isn't told a lie— Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go...
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