 | Robert Browning - 1882 - 328 pages
...chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. in. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking : " 'T is clear," cried they, " our Mayor 'sa noddy ; " And as for our Corporation — shocking " To... | |
 | Thomas W. Handford - Recitations, American - 1881 - 438 pages
...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, Made nests inside...and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town-hall came flocking : " 'Tis clear," cried they, " our Mayor's... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1883 - 308 pages
...the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles, 137 Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside...and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. in. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking : " 'Tis clear," cried they, " our... | |
 | George Walter Baynham - 1883 - 416 pages
...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, made nests inside...and squeaking in fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body to the Town Hall came flocking: "'Tis clear," cried they, "our Mayor's... | |
 | Frederick William Hackwood - Moral education - 1883 - 224 pages
...pity. Rats! They fought the dogs, and killed the cats,... Made nests inside men's Sunday hats. . . . At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came..."Tis clear,' cried they, 'our mayor's a noddy.'... At this the mayor and corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they sate in council... | |
 | Recitations - 1884 - 780 pages
...their cradles, And ate the chooses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside...and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town-hall came flocking : " 'Tis clear," cried they, " our Mayor's... | |
 | 1884 - 588 pages
...ladles, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Hade nests Inside men's Sunday hats And even epoll'd the women's chats, By drowning their speaking With...and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats." One day, there came a man into the town, most quaintly Attired in parti-colored suit. Bunting the man... | |
 | Recitations - 1885 - 180 pages
...in the cradles, And ate the cheese out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside...and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking : " 'Tis clear," cried they, " our Mayor's... | |
 | Illustrated poems - 1885 - 370 pages
...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, Made nests inside men's Sunday hats, And even spoiled the woman's chats, By drowning their speaking With shrieking and squeaking • In fifty different sharps... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1886 - 626 pages
...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, Made nests inside...and squeaking In fifty different sharps and flats. tiI. At last the people in a body To the Town Hall came flocking : " 'Tis clear." cried they, " our... | |
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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.... 
