 | 302 pages
...; That the baker may take it, And into rolls make it, And send us some hot in the morn ! THERE wns an old woman, and what do you think ? She lived upon...Victuals and drink were the chief of her diet, And jet this old woman could never be quiet. MOTHER AND CHILD. BEHOLD a little baby boy, A happy babe is... | |
 | Adeline Dutton Train Whitney - Christmas - 1868 - 132 pages
...May the finishing string VICTUALS AND DKINK. " There once was a woman, And what do you think ? Sh« lived upon nothing But victuals and drink. Victuals...and drink Were the chief of her diet, And yet this poor woman Scarce ever was quiet." AXD were you so foolish As really to think That all she could want... | |
 | John Richard Houlding - Australia - 1868 - 478 pages
...extracts I have already given. The old nursery rhyme is a tolerably apt portraiture of Mrs. Lemonpip, " There was an old woman, and what do you think, She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink. And victuals and drink were the chief of her diet, But vet this old woman could never be quiet." Mrs.... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1868 - 662 pages
...were eternally dissatisfied and unmanageable. In short it was the moral of the old nursery fable : There was an old woman, and what do you think ? She lived upon nothing but victuats and drink ; Victuats and drink were the whole of her diet. And yet this old woman would NEVER... | |
 | Charles Dickens - English fiction - 1868 - 604 pages
...short it was the moral of the old nursery fable : There was an old woman. and what do you think î 8he lived upon nothing but victuals and drink ; Victuals and drink were the whoiu of her diet. And yet this old woman woutd NKyER be quiet. Is it possible, I wonder, that there... | |
 | Nursery rhymes - 1869 - 254 pages
...his life. There was an old woman121 Lived under a hill; And if she's not gone, She lives there still. There was an old woman and what do you think ? She...diet, And yet this old woman could never be quiet. There was an old woman as I've heard tell, She went to market her eggs for to sell ; She went to market... | |
 | Old nursery songs - 1869 - 348 pages
...whither, so high ?" " Only to sweep the cobwebs off the sky, And I shall be back again by-and-by." HEKE was an old woman, and what do you think ? She lived...diet, And yet this old woman could never be quiet. was an old woman who lived in a shoe, She had so many children she didn't know what to do ; She gave... | |
 | 1870 - 1172 pages
...: " There was an old woman, and what do yon think? She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink 1 Victuals and drink were the chief of her diet, And yet— this old woman could never be quiet." Small wonder! When was ever soul-hunger stilled and satisfied with food unmeet for it? We are learned... | |
 | Merry heart, Melville Gray - Nursery rhymes, English - 1871 - 244 pages
..."a fool," Drove her children to school, This worrying old woman in Surrey. THE SURPRISING OLD WOMAN. THERE was an old woman, and, what do you think ? She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink ; And tho' victuals and drink were the chief of her diet, This plaguy old woman would never be quiet.... | |
 | Nursery rhymes - 1874 - 588 pages
...CCCCLXVI. [The conclusion of the following resembles a verse in the nursery history of Mother Hubbard.] THERE was an old woman, and what do you think ? She...drink : Victuals and drink were the chief of her diet ; This tiresome old woman could never be quiet. She went to the baker, to buy her some bread, And when... | |
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There was an old woman, and what do you think? She lived upon nothing but victuals and drink; Victuals and drink were the whole of her diet, And yet this old woman would never be quiet. 
