 | Nursery rhymes - 1833 - 154 pages
...that's half ; He took him out of the stall And put him on the wall, And that's all. — CS288S25 — There was a little man, And he had a little gun, And his bullets were made of lead, He shot John Sprig Goosey, goosey, gander, where dost thou wander ? Up stairs and down stairs, and... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1841 - 468 pages
...the good fat tripe, &c. &c. And he eat up all the bawbie baps, &c. and his name was Edrin Drum. LIT. THERE was a little man, And he had a little gun, And...went to a brook, And fired at a duck, And shot him through the head, head, head. He carried it home, To his old wife Joan, And bid her a fire for to make,... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Ballads, English - 1841 - 434 pages
...the good fat tripe, &c. &c. And he eat up all the bawbie baps, &c. and his name was Edrin Drum. LII. THERE was a little man, • And he had a little gun,...went to a brook, And fired at a duck, And shot him through the head, head, head. He carried it home, To his old wife Joan, And bid her a fire for to make,... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1841 - 476 pages
...the good fat tripe, &c. &c. And he eat up all the bawbie baps, &c. and his name was Edrin Drum. LIT. THERE was a little man, And he had a little gun, And...went to a brook, And fired at a duck, And shot him through the head, head, head. He carried it home, To his old wife Joan, And bid her a fire for to make,... | |
 | Lawrence Lovechild - Counting-out rhymes - 1847 - 118 pages
...little pig had none ; 5. This little pig said, Wee, wee, wee ! I can't find my way home. 107. SPHERE was a little man and he had a little gun, And his bullets they were made of lead, lead, lead ; He went unto the brook, and shot a little duck, And he hit her... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1901 - 690 pages
...always make misconceptions. I suppose С. С. В. would not relish hymns written after such a pattern as There was a little man, And he had a little gun, And his bullets were made of lead, &c w. с. в. 'EROS' AND ' ANTEROS ' (9th S. viii. 163). — The book inquired after is 'The Gladiators,'... | |
 | Literature - 1851 - 640 pages
...of eating is by no means the most amiable picture to present a child's imagination :— There was n little man, And he had a little gun, And his bullets were mude of lead, &c. He shoots a little duck, which his wife roasts while he goes to kill her husband... | |
 | Household words - 1852 - 252 pages
...the sake of eating, is by no means the most amiable picture to present a child's imagination : — " There was a little Man, And he had a little gun, And his bullets were made of lead, " <fec. He shoots a little duck, which his wife roasts while he goes to kill her husband the drake.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - Household words - 1853 - 504 pages
...the sake of eating, is by no means the most amiable picture to present a child's imagination : — " There was a little Man, And he had a little gun, And liis bullets were made of lead, " etc. He shoots a little duck, which his wife roasts while he goes... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell- Phillipps - 1853 - 372 pages
...they could not find him ; He ran fourteen miles in fifteen days, And never look'd behind him. LIV. There was a little man, And he had a little gun, And he went to the brook, And he shot a little rook ; And he took it home To his old wife Joan, And told... | |
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There was a little man, and he had a little gun, And his bullets were made of lead, lead, lead; He went to the brook, and saw a little duck, / And shot it right through the head, 
