 | Children's poetry - 1878 - 252 pages
...came down the hill, 1 And ne'er went up again. 8 The man in the moon, Came down too soon, To inquire his way to Norwich. He went by the south, And burnt his mouth With eating cold plum-porridge. The man in the wilderness asked me,m How many strawberries grew in the sea.... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - Folklore - 1880 - 312 pages
...in the moon once favoured this earth with his presence, and "took a fancy to some pease-porridge/1 which he was in such a hurry to devour that he scalded...Norwich ; He went by the south, And burnt his mouth With sipping hot pease-porridge." His chief beverage was claret : — " The man in the moon drinks claret... | |
 | Books and bookselling - 1880 - 918 pages
...round the earth. If the nursery rhyme is to be credited, the man in the moon once visited this earth,2 and took a fancy to some pease-porridge, which he...moon Came tumbling down, And asked his way to Norwich ; but whether he ever reached his destination we are not told. According to the classic tale,3 the... | |
 | Choice literature - 1880 - 420 pages
...round the earth. If the nursery rhyme is to be credited, the man in the moon once visited this earth, J and took a fancy to some pease-porridge, which he...moon Came tumbling down, And asked his way to Norwich ; but whether he ever reached his destination we are not told. According to the classic tale,§ the... | |
 | Richard Grant White - English language - 1880 - 558 pages
...what is to become of that time-honored epic, — "The man in the moon Came down too soon, And ask'd his way to Norwich ; He went by the south, And burnt his mouth With eating cold pease-porridge." Plainly the pronunciation Norich is of a very respectable antiquity- And... | |
 | Libraries - 1880 - 462 pages
...round the earth. If the nursery rhyme is to be credited, the man in the moon once visited this earth, J and took a fancy to some pease-porridge, which he was in such a Lurry to devour that he scaJded his mouth : — The man in the moon Came tumbling down, And asked his... | |
 | Sarah Catherine Martin, mother Hubbard - 1883 - 80 pages
...jumped into a holly bush, And scratched them in again. THE MAN IN THE MOON. 37 THE MAN IN THE MOON. THE man in the moon Came tumbling down, And asked...Norwich ; He went by the south, And burnt his mouth, Whilst supping hot pease-porridge. 38 THE KING OF FRANCE AND HIS MEN. THE KILLING OF THE CALF. JOHNNIE... | |
 | Child - 1883 - 330 pages
...pretty maid." " Nobody asked you, sir," she said. The man in the moon Came tumbling down, And asked the way to Norwich. He went by the south, And burnt his mouth, With eating cold pease porridge. Snail, snail, come out of your hole, Or else I '11 beat you as black as... | |
 | Child - 1883 - 330 pages
...pretty maid." " Nobody asked you, sir," she said. The man in the moon Came tumbling down, And asked the way to Norwich. He went by the south, And burnt his mouth, H» With eating cold pease porridge. Snail, snail, come out of your hole, Or else I 'll beat you as... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - Bedtime stories (rhyming) - 1886 - 360 pages
...stronger, My story would have been longer. LXXVII. THE man in the moon, Came tumbling down, And ask'd his way to Norwich, He went by the south, And burnt his month With supping cold pease-porridge. LXXVIII. Oua saucy boy Dick, Had a nice little stick Cut from... | |
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And ask'd his way to Norwich. He went by the south, And burnt his mouth, With supping hot pease porridge. 
