 | William Fleming Stevenson - 1870 - 386 Seiten
...uneasy, and whether or no, like the rat-bitten population of Hamelin, they came to the town-hall with a " Rouse up, sirs ! give your brains a racking, To find...lacking, Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing I At which the mayor and corporation Quakes with a mighty consternation" — we are ignorant ; but... | |
 | Richard Chenevix Trench - 1870 - 466 Seiten
...dolts that can't or won't determine What's best to rid us of our vermin ! You hope, because you're old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe ease ? Rouse up, sirs ! Give your brains a racking 30 To find the remedy we're lacking, Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing ! ' At this the Mayor... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1871 - 292 Seiten
...Rouse up, Sirs ! Give your brains a racking To find the remedy we 're lacking, Or, sure as fate, we '11 send you packing ! " At this the Mayor and Corporation...At length the Mayor broke silence : " For a guilder I 'd my ermine gown sell ; I wish I were a mile hence ! It 's easy to bid one rack one's brain —... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1871 - 968 Seiten
...gowns lined with ermine For dolts that can't or won't determine What 's best to rid us of our vermin ! irds ; pleasant the sun, When first on this delightful laud he spreads His orient sate in counsel, — At length the Mayor broke silence : " For a guilder I 'd my ermine gown sell ;... | |
 | 1871 - 314 Seiten
...us of our vermin ! You hope, because you 're old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe case ? Rouse up, Sirs ! Give your brains a racking To find the remedy we 're lacking, T)r, sure as fate, we 'll send you packing ! " At this the Mayor and Corporation Quaked... | |
 | School board readers - 1872 - 200 Seiten
...dolts that can't or won't determine What's best to rid us of our vermin ! You hope, because you're old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe ease....and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. iv. An hour they sat in council, At length the Mayor broke silence : " For a guilder I'd my ermine... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1872 - 460 Seiten
...dolts that can't or won't determine What's best to rid us of our vermin I You hope, because you're old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe ease ? Rouse up, Sirs I Give your brains a racking To find the remedy we're lacking, Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - 1873 - 294 Seiten
...dolts that can't or won't determine What's best to rid us of our vermin ! You hope, because you 're old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe ease...To find the remedy we're lacking, Or, sure as fate, we 'll send you packing !" At this the Mayor and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. An... | |
 | George Walter Baynham - 1873 - 344 Seiten
...dolts that can't or won't determine What's best to rid us of our vermin ! You hope, because you're old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe ease...To find the remedy we're lacking, Or, sure as fate, we'1l send you packing !" At this the Mayor and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. ATI... | |
 | John Daniel Morell - 1874 - 336 Seiten
...of our vermin ! You hope, because you're old and obese, to find in the furry civic robe ease ! Bouse up, sirs ! give your brains a racking to find the...and corporation quaked with a mighty consternation. An'hour they sat in council. — At length the mayor broke silence : " For a guilder I'd my ermine... | |
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You hope, because you're old and obese, To find in the furry civic robe ease! Rouse up, Sirs! Give your brains a racking To find the remedy we're lacking, Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing! 
