 If we only live, We too will go to sea in a Sieve, — To the hills of the Chankly Bore !' Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live; Their heads are green, and their hands are blue, And they went to sea in a Sieve.  At Last: A Christmas in the West Indies - Page 450by Charles Kingsley - 1871 - 465 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Edward Lear - 1871 - 178 pages
...health, and gave them a feast Of dumplings made of beautiful yeast ; And every one said, " If we only live, We, too, will go to sea in a sieve, To the hills of the Chankly Bore." Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live : Their heads are green, and their... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1880 - 452 pages
...friends were of the same mind as those of the dear little Jumblies, whom Mr. Lear has made immortal in his " New Book of Nonsense"; and we were bound...to be kinder still; while we, busy— perhaps too busy—over our Natural History collections, had seen very little of our neighbours; had been able... | |
 | Charles Kingsley - 1882 - 478 pages
...friends were of the same mind as those of the dear little Jumblies, whom Mr. Lear has made immortal in his "New Book of Nonsense"; and we were bound to...Natural History collections, had seen very little of our neighbours; had been able to accept very few of the invitations which were showered on us, and which... | |
 | Edward Lear - 1888 - 260 pages
...health, and gave them a feast Of dumplings made of beautiful yeast; And every one said, " If we only live, We, too, will go to sea in a sieve, To the hills of the Chankly Bore." Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live: Their heads are green, and their hands... | |
 | Edward Lear - 1888 - 438 pages
...health, and gave them a least Of dumplings made of beautiful yeast ; And every one said, " If we only live, We, too, will go to sea in a sieve, To the hills of the Chankly Bore." Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live : Their heads are green, and their... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1888 - 570 pages
...the friends of tbe Jumblies receive them back at the end of twenty years, saying : — ' If we only live, We too will go to sea in a sieve, To the hills of the Chankly Bora : ' or where the four little children who had gone out to see the world are welcomed back ' by... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1902 - 516 pages
...health, and gave them a feast Of dumplings made of beautiful yeast ; And every one said, " If we only live, We, too, will go to sea in a sieve, To the hills of the Chankly Bore." Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live: Their heads are green, and their hands... | |
 | Joel Chandler Harris - 1902 - 442 pages
...health, and gave them a feast Of dumplings made of beautiful yeast; And every one said, " If we only live, We, too, will go to sea in a sieve, To the hills of the Chankly Bore." Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live: Their heads are green, and their hands... | |
 | Frederic Lawrence Knowles - 1902 - 508 pages
...they've grown ! For they've been to the Lakes, and the Torrible Zone, And every one said, " If we only live, We, too, will go to sea in a sieve, To the hills of the Chankly Bore." Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live: Their heads are green, and their hands... | |
 | Edward Lear - 1904 - 460 pages
...health, and gave them a least Of dumplings made of beautiful yeast; And every one said, " If we only live, We, too, will go to sea in a sieve, To the hills of the Chankly Bore." Far and few, far and few, Are the lands where the Jumblies live: Their heads are green, and their hands... | |
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