 Saw the earth open and gulp her down, And Braddock's army was done so brown, Left without a scalp to its crown. It was on the terrible earthquake-day That the Deacon finished the one-hoss shay.  The Autocrat of the breakfast table - Page 289by Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1858 - 373 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1880 - 582 pages
...one-hoss-shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day, And then, of a sudden, it — ah, but stay, I'll tell you what happened without...Scaring the parson into fits, Frightening people out of thenwits, — Have you ever heard of that, I say ? Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus... | |
 | Austin Barclay Fletcher - 1881 - 498 pages
...shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day, And then, of a sudden, it — Ah, but stay, I'll tell you what happened,...drone from the German hive. That was the year when Lisbon town Saw the earth open and gulp her down, And Braddock's army was done so brown, Left without... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1881 - 120 pages
...in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day, And then, of a sudden, it ah, but stay, I '11 tell you what happened without delay, Scaring the...alive, — Snuffy old drone from the German hive. 81 That was the year when Lisbon-town Saw the earth open and gulp her down, And Braddock's army was... | |
 | Austin Barclay Fletcher - 1881 - 454 pages
...shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day, And then, of a sudden, it — Ah, but stay, I'll tell you what happened,...out of their wits — Have you ever heard of that, I sav? Seventeen hundred and fifty-five, Georgius Secundus was then alive — Snufiy old drone from the... | |
 | Evert Augustus Duyckinck - 1881 - 1078 pages
...a sudden, it ah, but stay, I '11 tell you what happened without delay, Scaring the parson into nts> 1 CYCLOPAEDIA OF -AMERICAN LITERATURE. Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Georgius Secundus was then alive,... | |
 | Ferguson - 1881 - 386 pages
...— ah, but stay, I'll tell you what happened, without delay — THE WONDERFUL " ONE-BOSS SHAY." 39 Scaring the parson into fits, Frightening people out of their wits — Have you heard of that, I say ? Seventeen hundred and fifty-five, Georgius Secundus was then alive— Snuny... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 640 pages
...what happened without eki..; . Scaring the parson into fits, Frightening people out of their witsHave you ever heard of that, I say ? Seventeen hundred...drone from the German hive. That was the year when Lisbon town Saw the earth open and gulp her down. And Braddock's army was done so brown, Left without... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1882 - 630 pages
...day. And then, of a sudden, it — ah, but stav. I'll tell you what happened without del. •, Searing the parson into fits, Frightening people out of their...of that, I say ? Seventeen hundred and fifty-five. Gtorgius Serundus was then alive — Snuffy old drone from the German hive. That was the year when... | |
 | Gleanings - 1882 - 692 pages
...ran a hundred years to a day, And then, of a sudden it — ah ! but stay, I'll tell you what happen'd without delay, Scaring the parson into fits, Frightening...their wits — Have you ever heard of that, I say f Seventeen hundred and fifty-five : Georgim Sectiiulus was then alive — Snuffy old drone from the... | |
 | Robert McLean Cumnock - 1882 - 420 pages
...shay, That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred years to a day, And then of ^a sudden, it — ah, but stay, I'll tell you what happened without delay, Scaring the parson into fits, Frightning people out of their wits. — Have you ever heard of that I say? Seventeen hundred and fifty-five,... | |
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