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The 'Eclipse' temperance elocutionist - Page 10
by Eclipse temperance elocutionist - 1875
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The Science and Art of Elocution and Oratory: Containing Specimens of the ...

Worthy Putnam - Elocution - 1858 - 420 pages
...flocks, in winter-time, In summer fish for shad. 5. In short this honest fisherman, 6. All day that fisherman would sit Upon an ancient log, And gaze into the water, like Some sedentary frog. 7. A cunning fisherman was he ; His angles all were right ; And when he scratched his aged pell, You'd...
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The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor: Containing Choice and Characteristic ...

William Evans Burton - Wit and humor - 1859 - 690 pages
...learned the art to " bob" For any thing but eels ! A cunning fisherman was he, His angles all were right ; The smallest nibble at his bait Was sure to...water, like Some sedentary frog ; With all the seeming mnocence, And that unconscious look, That other people often wear When they intend to " hook !" lü....
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The New School Reader

Charles Walton Sanders - 1859 - 482 pages
...smallest nibble at his bait Was sure to prove a " bite /" 7 All day this fisherman would sit 8. Wi;h all the seeming innocence And that unconscious look,...other people often wear When they intend to " hook /" 9. To charm the fish he never spoke,— Although his voice was fine, He found the most convenient...
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A Budget of Humorous Poetry: Comprising Specimens of the Best and Most ...

American wit and humor - 1859 - 338 pages
...other toils forsook; And though no vagrant man was he, He lived by " hook and crook." All day that fisherman would sit Upon an ancient log, And gaze into the water, like Some sedentary frog. A cunning fisherman was he; His angles all were right; And when he scratched his aged poll, You'd know...
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The New York Speaker: A Selection of Pieces Designed for Academic Exercises ...

Warren P. Edgarton - Recitations - 1860 - 530 pages
...other toils forsook ; And though no vagrant man was he, He lived by " hook and crook." All day that fisherman would sit Upon an ancient log, And gaze into the water, like Some sedentary frog. A cunning fisherman was he ; His angles all were right ; And when he scratched his aged poll, You 'd...
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Poems

John Godfrey Saxe - 1861 - 382 pages
...but eels ! A cunning fisherman was he, His angles all were right ; The smallest nibble at his ba:t Was sure to prove ' a bite ! ' All day this fisherman...that unconscious look, That other people often wear THE COLD WATER-MAN. To charm the fish he never spoke, — Although his voice was fine, He found the...
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Poems

John Godfrey Saxe - 1864 - 380 pages
...learned the art to ' bob * For any thing but eels ! A cunning fisherman was he, His angles all were right ; The smallest nibble at his bait Was sure to...the seeming innocence, And that unconscious look, To charm the fish he never spoke, -— Although his voice was fine, He found the most convenient way...
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Poems

John Godfrey Saxe - 1864 - 336 pages
...was he, His angles all were right ; The smallest nibble at bis bait Was sure to prove * a bite ' I All day this fisherman would sit Upon an ancient log,...other people often wear When they intend to ' hook ' I To charm the fish he never spoke, — Although his voice was fine, He found the most convenient...
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Poems

John Godfrey Saxe - American wit and humor - 1866 - 320 pages
...cunning fisherman was he, His angles all were right ; The smallest nibble at his bait Was sure to prove 4 a bite ' ! All day this fisherman would sit Upon an...look, That other people often wear When they intend to i hook * 1 To charm the fish he never spoke, .— Although his voice was fine, He found the most convenient...
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The Times, the Telegraph, and Other Poems

John Godfrey Saxe - 1866 - 302 pages
...learned the art to ' bob" For anything but eels ! A cunning fisherman was h«, His angles all were right; The smallest nibble at his bait Was sure to...And gaze into the water, like Some sedentary frog j With all the seeming innocence, And that unconscious look, That other people often wear When they...
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