...a score of play-bills streaming from his 1 So the old song joyously celebrates their arrival : — The beggars are coming to town, Some in rags, and some in jags, and some in velvet gown. (W. II.) pockets, for the use of the neighbouring villages, and a music-score...

...The bridge together. The bridge broke, down, Hark ! hark ! the dogs do bark, The beggars have come to town ; Some in rags, and some in tags, And some in velvet gowns. Diddle diddle dumpling, my son John Went to bed with his breeches on, One stocking off, and one stocking...

...first Reform Parlia- alert upon the occasion. inciii , is exhibited in the excitement " Hark, bark ! the dogs do bark, The beggars are coming to town ; Some in rags, some in jags, Some Jn velvet gowns." There in a MS. copy in the British his partialities. Whether the...

...origin and story of this old nursery rime, and where it is to be found ? Hark ! Hark ! The dogs do bark, Beggars are coming to town, Some in rags, and some in tags, And some in velvet gown. AM LANG. DOROTHY NUTT.—Knowing a portrait of this lady, whoever she was, I shall be much obliged...

...on, carolling to the echo of the babbling * So the old song joyously celebrates their arrival ; — " The beggars are coming to town, Some in rags, and some in jags, and some in velvet gown." p 2 stream, brisk as a bird, gay as a mote, swift as an arrow from...

...on, carolling to the echo of the babbling * So the old song joyously celebrates their arrival ; — " The beggars are coming to town, Some in rags, and some in jags, and some in velvet gown." stream, brisk as a bird, gay as a mote, swift as an arrow from a twanging...

...seam, And feed upon Strawberries, Sugar, and Cream. THE WATCH DOGS BARK. ARK! Hark! The watch dogs bark, The beggars are coming to town, Some in rags, and some in jags, And some in velvet gown. . Of; MARY, MARY, QUITE CONTRARY. ARY, Mary, quite contrary, How does...

...Past and to the Future, " To the land of the Hereafter," To the land of Evermore ! THE STATUTE FAIK. Hark, hark, the dogs do bark, The beggars are coming to town, Some in raga, some in tags, Some in silken gowns. If you have ever lived in the market square of a little country...

...reminded him of an old nursery ditty which Susan Stimson had sung to him when he was a child : — " Hark ! hark ! the dogs do bark, The beggars are coming to town, Some in raga, some in tags, Some in silken gowns." his first greeting of Will. But when he saw a gleam of light...

...Tag is still in use as a vulgarism I believe, and many may be acquainted with the modern ballad — " Hark, hark. The dogs do bark, The beggars are coming to town, Some in rags, And some in jags, And some in velvet gown." I remember that this was a favourite composition with me when I was...