The Poetry of American Wit and HumorL. C. Page, 1899 - 367 стор. |
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... — it is , — - A hat is going round ! No ! Pay the dentist when he leaves A fracture in your jaw , And pay the owner of the bear , That stunned you with his paw , Perhaps you're going out to dine , — Some odious 20 AMERICAN WIT AND HUMOR .
... — it is , — - A hat is going round ! No ! Pay the dentist when he leaves A fracture in your jaw , And pay the owner of the bear , That stunned you with his paw , Perhaps you're going out to dine , — Some odious 20 AMERICAN WIT AND HUMOR .
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... round , and regarded his fault - finding critic ( Who thought he was stuffed ) with a glance analytic , And then fairly hooted , as if he should say : " Your learning's at fault this time , anyway ; Don't waste it again on a live bird ...
... round , and regarded his fault - finding critic ( Who thought he was stuffed ) with a glance analytic , And then fairly hooted , as if he should say : " Your learning's at fault this time , anyway ; Don't waste it again on a live bird ...
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... round of shopping ; Shopping alone , and shopping together , At all hours of the day , and in all sorts of weather : For all manner of things that a woman can put On the crown of her head or the sole of her foot , Or wrap round her ...
... round of shopping ; Shopping alone , and shopping together , At all hours of the day , and in all sorts of weather : For all manner of things that a woman can put On the crown of her head or the sole of her foot , Or wrap round her ...
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... round- about ! An ' the gobble - uns ' ll git you Ef you Don't Watch Out ! An ' one time a little girl ' ud allus laugh an ' grin , An ' make fun of ever ' one an ' all her blood an ' kin , An ' onc't when they was " company " an ' old ...
... round- about ! An ' the gobble - uns ' ll git you Ef you Don't Watch Out ! An ' one time a little girl ' ud allus laugh an ' grin , An ' make fun of ever ' one an ' all her blood an ' kin , An ' onc't when they was " company " an ' old ...
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... round some nymph a sunlit fountain's flow . " She would not make me wait ! " but well I know She took a good half - hour to loose and lay Those locks in dazzling disarrangement so ! EDWARD ROWLAND SILL . Little Brown Baby . ' LITTLE ...
... round some nymph a sunlit fountain's flow . " She would not make me wait ! " but well I know She took a good half - hour to loose and lay Those locks in dazzling disarrangement so ! EDWARD ROWLAND SILL . Little Brown Baby . ' LITTLE ...
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Сторінка 250 - THE mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel ; And the former called the latter ' Little Prig '. Bun replied, ' You are doubtless very big ; But all sorts of things and weather Must be taken in together, To make up a year And a sphere. And I think it no disgrace 10 To occupy my place.
Сторінка vii - Which is why I remark, And my language is plain, That for ways that are dark, And for tricks that are vain, The heathen Chinee is peculiar — Which the same I am free to maintain.
Сторінка 126 - To see my Ma? She's sprinklin' clo'es Agin to-morrer's i'nin'." To say why gals acts so or so, Or don't 'ould be persumin'; Mebby to mean yes an' say no Comes nateral to women. He stood a spell on one foot fust, Then stood a spell on t'other, An' on which one he felt the wust He couldn't ha
Сторінка 329 - WHEN I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
Сторінка 159 - The parson was working his Sunday's text, Had got to fifthly, and stopped perplexed At what the -Moses - was coming next. All at once the horse stood still, Close by the meet'n'-house on the hill First a shiver, and then a thrill, Then something decidedly like a spill.
Сторінка 235 - B. is a sensible man ; He stays to his home an' looks arter his folks ; He draws his furrer ez straight ez he can, An' into nobody's tater-patch pokes ; But John P. Robinson he Sez he wunt vote fer Guvener B. My ! ain't it terrible ? Wut shall we du ? We can't never choose him o...
Сторінка 155 - HAVE you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day...
Сторінка 78 - MY AUNT. MY aunt ! my dear unmarried aunt ! Long years have o'er her flown ; Yet still she strains the aching clasp That binds her virgin zone ; I know it hurts her, — though she looks As cheerful as she can ; Her waist is ampler than her life, For life is but a span.
Сторінка 157 - Last of its timber— they couldn't sell 'em. Never an axe had seen their chips, And the wedges flew from between their lips, Their blunt ends frizzled like celery-tips ; Step and prop-iron, bolt and screw, Spring, tire, axle, and linchpin too, Steel of the finest, bright and blue ; Thoroughbrace bison-skin, thick and wide ; Boot, top, dasher, from tough old hide Found in the pit when the tanner died. That was the way he "put her through.
Сторінка 20 - WHO stuffed that white owl?" No one spoke in the shop: The barber was busy, and he couldn't stop; The customers, waiting their turns, were all reading The Daily, the Herald, the Post, little heeding The young man who blurted out such a blunt question; Not one raised a head, or even made a suggestion; And the barber kept on shaving. "Don't you see, Mister Brown...