| 1880 - 112 páginas
...Bombay. The princess lost her shoe: Her highness hopped ; The fiddler stopped, Not knowing what to do. THE man in the wilderness asked me How many strawberries...the sea: I answered him as I thought good, As many as red herrings grew in the wood. FEEDUM, fiddledum, fee, The cat's got into the tree. Pussy, come... | |
| State Pomological Society of Michigan - 1880 - 518 páginas
...abounding in Attic salt, but not more severe than such an ultramariuo question deserved : " The man of the wilderness asked me How many strawberries grew in the sea; I answered him as 1 thought good, 4 As many red herrings as grew in the wood.' " We find forced strawberries, and cherries,... | |
| Madeline Bonavia Hunt - 1881 - 162 páginas
...many a knowing nod acd wink — " ' The old man in the wilderness asked me How many strawberries grow in the sea ? I answered him as I thought good — As many as red herrings grow in the wood. ' The old man came and asked me then How many noughts there were... | |
| Eleanor W. Talbot - 1887 - 52 páginas
...And so do I. O market, to market, To buy a penny bun ; Home again, home again, Market is done. 1.IE man in the wilderness Asked me How many strawberries...sea. I answered him As I thought good: As many red herring As grew in the wood. ING, sing! What shall I sing? Cat's run away With the pudding.bag string.... | |
| 1883 - 75 páginas
...MAN IN THE WILDERNESS. • THE old man in the wilderness asked me : — " How many strawberries grow in the sea ?" I answered him, as I thought good : — " As many as red herrings grow in the wood." 3 8 IN-FIR- TAR- is. TO A SNAIL. SNAIL, snail, put out your horns,... | |
| Mary Hallock Foote - 1886 - 370 páginas
...in the wilderness," and asked Mrs. Craig, as an authority on nursery rhymes, to quote for him: — "The man in the wilderness asked me How many strawberries...sea. I answered him as I thought good — As many as red-herrings grow-in the wood." " What are you laughing at ? —because he goes to the wood for... | |
| Adeline Dutton Train Whitney - 1887 - 258 páginas
...o'er, And the life of the wings begun ? THE MAN IN THE WILDERNESS. " The man in the wilderness, he asked me How many strawberries grew in the sea : I...thought good, As many red herrings as grew in the wood." OP the face of the world they have found it out By what they must fetch and do ; Of the heart of the... | |
| William Carew Hazlitt - 1890 - 398 páginas
...pure and " simple, thrown into metrical form, rather than a little poem for little masters ? — " The man in the wilderness asked me, How many strawberries...thought good, As many red herrings as grew in the wood." This cross-bred effusion, with its share of epigrammatic character, is traced backward to the last... | |
| William Carew Hazlitt - 1890 - 278 páginas
...retort pure and simple, thrown into metrical form, rather than a little poem for little masters ? — " The man in the wilderness asked me, How many strawberries grew in the sea ? 1 answered him, as I thought good, As many red herrings as grew in the wood." This cross-bred effusion,... | |
| G. F. Northall - 1892 - 590 páginas
...description for a part of the parish of Great Bowden. AA 148. " The man in the wilderness asked of me, How many strawberries grew in the sea ? I answered...as I thought good, As many red herrings as grew in a wood." AR. i. 331. The Macclesfield Courier of October I4th, 1882, publishes a police case in which... | |
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