 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.  Routledge's Every Boy's Annual - Page 5021882Full view - About this book
 | 1885 - 180 pages
...ditty, Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk suffer so From vermin, was a pity. RATS! They fought the dogs, and killed the cats, And bit the babies 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... | |
 | Illustrated poems - 1885 - 370 pages
...ditty, Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk suffer so From vermin was a pity. Rats! They fought the dogs, and killed the cats, And bit the babies 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... | |
 | James Johonnot - 1885 - 202 pages
...circumference. Noah's ark rested upon Ararat. " Rats ! they bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats ; And licked the soup from the cook's own ladles." 4 Eight times eleven are eighty-eight. The carpenter bores holes with an auger. Industry and economy... | |
 | George Boyle - 1886 - 318 pages
...rodents: Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And hit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, 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... | |
 | Henry Davenport Northrop - 1888 - 712 pages
...ditty, Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk suffer so From vermin was a pity. Rats! They fought the dogs, and killed the cats, And bit the babies 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... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1887 - 428 pages
...ditty, Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk suffer so From vermin, was a pity. n. Rats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs... | |
 | M. F. Hyde - 1888 - 246 pages
...ditty, Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk suffer so From vermin, was a pity. Rats! n. They fought the dogs, and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, Split open the kegs of salted sprats, Made nests inside men's Sunday... | |
 | Mary Frances Hyde - 1889 - 382 pages
...ditty, Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk suffer so From vermin, was a pity. n. Rats! They fought the dogs, and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1889 - 332 pages
...ditty, Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk suffer so From vermin, was a pity. ii. Eats! They fought the dogs and killed the cats, And bit the babies in the cradles, And ate the cheeses out of the vats, And licked the soup from the cooks' own ladles, Split open the kegs... | |
 | Blanche Wilder Bellamy, Maud Wilder Goodwin - 1889 - 356 pages
...ditty, Almost five hundred years ago, To see the townsfolk suffer so From vermin, was a pity. Rats! They fought the dogs, and killed the cats, And bit the babies 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... | |
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