 Brown rats, black rats, gray rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, 'Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives — Followed the Piper for...  The modern elocutionist, compiled and ed. by J.A. Jennings - Page 348edited by - 1878Full view - About this book
 | Charlotte Fiske Bates - American poetry - 1832 - 1022 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers; Families by tens and...plunged and perished — Save one who, stout as Julius Csesar, Swam across and lived to carry (As he the manuscript he cherished) To rat-land home his commentary,... | |
 | American literature - 1865 - 820 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...From street to street he piped advancing, And step for step he followed dancing, Until they came to the river Weser Wherein all plunged and perished !... | |
 | 1846 - 534 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...husbands, wives, Followed the Piper for their lives Until they came to the river Weser, Wherein all plunged and perished z 2 — Save one, who stout as... | |
 | Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...From street to street he piped advancing, And step for step they followed dancing, Until they came to the river Weser Wherein all plunged and perished... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tins and dozens, Brothers, sisters, husbands, wives —...From street to street he piped advancing, And step for step they followed dancing, Until they came to the River Weser Wherein all plunged and perished... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - American periodicals - 1860 - 794 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friakcrs, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...the river Weser, Wherein all plunged and perished. "These rats had evidently heard in the Piper's tune that the ' World was grown to one vast drysaltery.'... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - English periodicals - 1873 - 586 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young pickers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...From street to street he piped advancing And step for step they followed dancing, Until they camo to the river Weser, Wherein all plunged and perished... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - Literature - 1860 - 786 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, eousins, Cocking tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...husbands, wives, Followed the Piper for their lives. From strcet to strcet he piped advancing, And step by step they followed dancing, Until they came to the... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Cocking tails, and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...From street to street he piped advancing, And step for step they followed dancing, Until they came to the river Weser Wherein all plunged and perished... | |
 | George Stillman Hillard - Readers (Secondary) - 1861 - 562 pages
...rats, tawny rats, Grave old plodders, gay young friskers, Fathers, mothers, uncles, cousins, Curling tails and pricking whiskers, Families by tens and...From street to street he piped, advancing, And step for step they followed, dancing, Until they came to the River 'Weser, Wherein all plunged and perished... | |
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