 | Mother Angela Gillespie - 1877 - 346 pagina’s
...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...packing !" At this the Mayor and Corporation Quaked wit li a mighty consternation. 4. An hour they sate in council— At length the Mayor broke silence:... | |
 | 1877 - 276 pagina’s
...dolts that can't or won't delermine 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...sirs ! Give your brains a racking To find the remedy we 're lacking, Or, sure as fate, we'll send. you packing 1" At this the Mayor and Corporation Quaked... | |
 | William Cullen Bryant - 1877 - 630 pagina’s
...gowns lined with ermine For dolts that can't or won't determine What 's best to rid us of our vermin ! At this the Mayor and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour the}' sate in counsel, — At length the Mayor broke silence : "For a guilder I 'd my ermine gown sell... | |
 | John Andrew Jennings - 1878 - 488 pagina’s
...For 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...Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they sate in council, At length the Mayor broke silence : " For a guilder I'd my ermine gown sell ! I wish... | |
 | Anna Randall Diehl - 1878 - 460 pagina’s
...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...lacking, Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing 1" At tliis the Mayor and Corporation Quaked with a mighty consternation. An hour they sat in council,... | |
 | Walter Bagehot - 1879 - 488 pagina’s
...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.' A person of musical abilities proposes to extricate the civic dignitaries from the difficulty, and... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 382 pagina’s
...and obese, " To find m the furry civic robe ease ! " Rouse up, Sirs 1 Give your brains a racking 30 " To find the remedy we're lacking, " Or, sure as fate,...mighty consternation. An hour they sat in Council ; 35 At length the Mayor broke silence : " For a guilder I'd my ermine gown sell — " I wish I were... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 318 pagina’s
...dolts that can't or won't determine ' What's best to rid us of our vermin ! ' You hone, 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 1 " At this the Mayor... | |
 | Horace Elisha Scudder - 1875 - 270 pagina’s
...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. IT.... | |
 | James Madison Watson - 1880 - 352 pagina’s
...our vermin ! YQU hope, because you're old and obese,8 To find in the furry civic 4 robe ease ? Bouse up, sirs ! Give yo/ur brains a racking « To find...lacking, Or, sure as fate, we'll send you packing ! " 1 Nbd'dy, a simpleton ; & fool. 8 O bese', v5ry fat ; fleshy. 8 D51t, a heavy, stupid fellow ;... | |
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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! 
