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" And the muttering grew to a grumbling ; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rumbling : And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. "
The Fifth Reader - Page 181
by Martha Adelaide Holton, Charles Madison Curry - 1914 - 287 pages
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The Cambridge Book of Poetry and Song

Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...wrinkled. And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled, Like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard...rumbling; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats. Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave...
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Punch, Volumes 16-17

Caricatures and cartoons - 1849 - 564 pages
...of bacon, and cheese, and butter. Consider the many-sorted rats abo\mding in the Establishment, — "Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 1

American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eye twinkled Like a candle-flame when salt is sprinkled • And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered You heard...rumbling : And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats,brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave...
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The Christian remembrancer; or, The Churchman's Biblical ..., Volume 11

1846 - 534 pages
...Piper of Hamelin.' We cannot refrain from an extract. ' Out of the houses the rats came tumbling ; Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking...
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Poems: A blot in the 'scutcheon

Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled Like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled ; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard...rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled Like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled ; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard...if an army muttered ; And the muttering grew to a grumbliiig ; And the grumbling grow to a mighty rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling....
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Temple Bar, Volume 39

George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1873 - 586 pages
...he wrinkled, And greeu and blue his sharp eyes twinkled, Like a candle flame when salt is sprinkled; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard...rumbling; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small ruts, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black ruts, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave...
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The Dial, Volume 1

Moncure Daniel Conway - American periodicals - 1860 - 794 pages
...him 1 ' — ' Any sum.' — A thousand guilders 1' — ' Yes.' — He played upon his pipe a tune, And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered You heard...rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling : Qrcat rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave...
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The Dial, Volume 1

Moncure Daniel Conway - Literature - 1860 - 786 pages
...Any sum.' — A thousand guilders ? ' — ' Yes.' — He played upon his pipe a tune, And ere thrce shrill notes the pipe uttered You heard as if an army...to a grumbling ; And the grumbling grew to a mighty rambling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling : Great rats, small rate, lean rats, brawny...
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Poetry for school and home, from the best authors, ed. by T. Shorter

Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...wrinkled, And green and blue his sharp eyes twinkled Like a candle flame where salt is sprinkled ; And ere three shrill notes the pipe uttered, You heard...rumbling ; And out of the houses the rats came tumbling. Great rats, small rats, lean rats, brawny rats, Brown rats, black rats, grey rats, tawny rats, Grave...
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