 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1860 - 428 pages
...the " Speaker," — the one on the right; " Mr. Mayor," my young one, how are you to-night ? That's our " Member of Congress," we say when we chaff; There's...wonderful book, And the ROYAL SOCIETY thought it was true! So they chose him right in ; a good joke it was, too ! There's a boy, — we pretend, — with a three-decker-brain,... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1860 - 334 pages
...mathematical look Made believe he had written a wonderful book. And the BOYAL SOCIETY thought it was true! So they chose him right in; a good joke it was too! There 'a a boy, — we pretend, — with a three-decker brain, That could harness a team with a logical chain... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1860 - 436 pages
...mathematical look Made believe he had written a wonderful book, And the ROYAL SOCIETY thought it was truel So they chose him right in ; a good joke it was, too ! There's a boy, — we pretend, — with a three-decker-brain, That could harness a team with a logical... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 326 pages
...Old time is a liar ! We 're twenty to-night ! We're twenty! We're twenty! Who says we are more? He 'a tipsy, — young jackanapes ! — show him the door...wonderful book, And the ROYAL SOCIETY thought it was true! So they chose him right in, — a good joke it was too I There 'sa boy, we pretend, with a three-decker... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 346 pages
..." — Yes I white if we please ; Where the snow-flakes fall thickest there 's nothing can freeze ! We want some new garlands for those we have shed,...wonderful book, And the ROYAL SOCIETY thought it was true ! So they chose him right in, — a good joke it was too ! There 'sa boy, we pretend, with a three-decker... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 328 pages
...talking (in public) as if we were old : — That boy we call " Doctor," and this we call "Judge"; It 'aa neat little fiction, — of course it 's all fudge....wonderful book, And the ROYAL SOCIETY thought it was true ! So they chose him right in, — a good joke it was too I There 'sa boy, we pretend, with a three-decker... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1862 - 368 pages
...Member of Congress," we say when we chaff; There 's the " Reverend " What 's his name ? — do n't make me laugh. That boy with the grave mathematical...wonderful book, And the ROYAL SOCIETY thought it was true ! So they chose him right in, — a good joke it was too ! There 'sa boy, we pretend, with a three-decker... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1864 - 444 pages
...to-night ? That 's our " Member of Congress," we say when we chatf; There 's the " Reverend " What 'a his name ? — don't make me laugh. That boy with...wonderful book, And the ROYAL SOCIETY thought it was true ! So they chose him right in, — a good joke it was too ! There 'sa boy, we pretend, with a three-decker... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1866 - 428 pages
...Congress," we say when we chaff; There's the "Reverend" What's his name? — don't make ma laugh t That boy with the grave mathematical look Made believe...wonderful book, And the ROYAL SOCIETY thought it was true! So they chose him right in ; a good joke it was, tool There's a boy, — we pretend, — with a three-decker-brain,... | |
 | Richard Edwards - 1867 - 510 pages
...Congress," we say when we chaff; There's -the "Reverend" — what's his name? — don't make me laugh. 6. That boy with the grave mathematical look Made believe...wonderful book, And the Royal Society thought it was true .' So they chose him right in, — a good joke it was too! 7. There 'sa boy, we pretend, with a three-decker... | |
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There's a boy, we pretend, with a three-decker brain, That could harness a team with a logical chain ; When he spoke for our manhood in syllabled fire, We called him "The Justice, 
