 | 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... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - Fiction - 1906 - 300 pages
...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 by! "DYMCHURCH FLIT.' THE BEE BOY'S SONG. Bees! Bees! Hark to your bees! " Hide from your neighbours as... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - Great Britain - 1906 - 332 pages
...and 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... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - Kent (England) - 1907 - 494 pages
...at 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...Trotting through the dark — Brandy for the Parson, 'liaccy for the clerk ; Laces for a lady ; letters for a spy, And watch the wall, my darling, while... | |
 | Eric Parker - Surrey (England) - 1908 - 482 pages
...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 by ! lasted into the last decade. Mr. HE Maiden, the Surrey historian to whom all Surrey writers and readers... | |
 | Charles George Harper - Biography & Autobiography - 1909 - 362 pages
...and hear a horse's feet, Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the street ; Them that ask no questions isn't told a lie, Watch the wall, my...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... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - 1910 - 598 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 darling, while the Gentlemen go by I Five and twenty ponies, Trotting through the dark— Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk;... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - Children's poetry, English - 1912 - 270 pages
...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 by! KING HENRY VII AND THE SHIPWRIGHTS (AJ>. 1487) Harry, our King in England, from London town is gone,... | |
 | Rudyard Kipling - Music - 1913 - 336 pages
...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 goby! KING HENRY VII. AND THE SHIPWRIGHTS (AD 1487) HARRY, our King in England, from London town is... | |
 | Walter Jerrold - Kent (England) - 1914 - 484 pages
...at 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...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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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! 
