 You are old,' said the youth, 'and your jaws are too weak For anything tougher than suet; Yet you finished the goose, with the bones and the beak - Pray how did you manage to do it?  The Literary World - Page 231870Full view - About this book
 | Charles Lutwidge Dodgson - 1869 - 222 pages
...finished the goose, with the bones and the beak : Fray, how did you manage to do it . " "In my youth" said his father, " I took to the law, And argued each case...it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life." 5 " You are old," said the youth ; one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as ever ; Yet... | |
 | Lewis Carroll - Adventure and adventurers - 1869 - 212 pages
...finished the goose, with the bones and the beak: Pray, how did you manage to do it 9" "In my youth," said his father, " I took to the law, And argued each case...it gave to my jaw, Has lasted the rest of my life." ADVICE FROM A "You are old" said the youth; one would hardly suppose That your eye was as steady as... | |
 | English literature - 1877 - 672 pages
...the bones and the beak — Pray, how did you manage to do it ?" " In my youth," said his father, u I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife ; And the muscular strength that it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life." ' Talking about parody, few have done better... | |
 | John Andrew Jennings - 1878 - 488 pages
...the goose with the bones and the beak — Pray, how did you manage to do it ? " " In my youth," said his father, " I took to the law, And argued each case...suppose That your eye was as steady as ever ; Yet you balanced an eel on the end of your nose — What made you so awfully clever ? " " I have answered... | |
 | Children's literature - 1889 - 472 pages
...you manage to do it ?'' '•In my youth," said his father, "I took to the law, And argued each cafe with my wife; And the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life." ld hardly suppose "You are old," paid the youth ;" one would h That your eye was as steady as ever... | |
 | George Melville Baker - Elocution - 1879 - 734 pages
...manage to do it?" j • , ,.j < . ••" .• ' ' •• • . , , ,. t . ,. , • " In my youth," said his father, " I took to the law, And argued each case with my wife ; Awl the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw, H»s (asted the rest of my Hie." " You are old,"... | |
 | William Davenport Adams - Poetry - 1880 - 362 pages
...the goose, with the bones and the beak — Pray how did you manage to do it ?' ' In my youth,' said his father, ' I took to the law, And argued each case...it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life.' Mr. Lear has written more than Mr. Carroll, but not more successfully. lake Shadwell, though in a very... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1881 - 918 pages
...finished the goose, with the bones and the beakPray, how do you manage to do it?" "In my youth," said his father, " I took to the law, And argued each case...And the muscular strength which it gave to my jaw lias lasted the rest of my life." Mr. Cholmondeley Pennell has also written a very ingenious imitation... | |
 | Art needlework - 1882 - 136 pages
...the goose, with the bones and the beak — Pray, how do you manage to do it ?" " In my youth," said his father, " I took to the law, And argued each case...it gave to my jaw Has lasted the rest of my life." One of our illustrations shows the Lobster's Quadrille, the performers in the present instance being... | |
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