 | Cambridgeshire (England) - 1892 - 478 pages
...movements, being of the utmost uncertainly, has led to this appellation. The days nre perhaps over, when " The Man in the Moon came tumbling down And asked his way to Norwich." — but the rhyme still lives in the Nurseries of England. Can any one say whether the rhyme had its... | |
 | Richard Grant White - English language - 1880 - 592 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... | |
 | Andrew Lang - Animals - 1897 - 320 pages
...Nineteen, twenty, My stomach's empty. Q TALES »• C* THE man in the moon, Came tumbling down, And ask'd his way to Norwich, He went by the south, And burnt his mouth With supping cold pease-porridge. M Y dear, do you know, How a long time ago, Two poor little children, Whose names... | |
 | Hjalmar Rued - 1899 - 360 pages
...thy bush." The last he was heard from he was inquiring his way to Norwich: "The man in the moon Game tumbling down And asked his way to Norwich; He went by the south, And burned his mouth With eating cold pease porridge." It is not often the folk-mind becomes reflectWhy... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1899 - 120 pages
...worth two in the bush. THE MAN IN THE MOON. The man in the moon Came down too soon, To inquire the way to Norwich ; He went by the south, And burnt his mouth With eating cold pease-porridge. HICKORY, DICKORY, DOCK. Hickory, dickory, dock, The mouse ran up the clock.... | |
 | Children's literature - 1900 - 500 pages
...a calf ; And that's half : He took him out of the stall, And put him on the wall ; And that's all. The man in the moon Came tumbling down, And asked...by the south, And burnt his mouth, With supping hot pease porridge. To make your candles last for aye, You wives and maids give ear, O ! To put 'em out's... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen - English language - 1900 - 184 pages
...Oh no, kind sir, you will snap our heads off." 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. The good man sat beside his door One sultry afternoon, With his young wife... | |
 | Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1903 - 138 pages
...rise Makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. The man in the moon Came down too soon, To inquire the way to Norwich ; He went by the south, And burnt his mouth With eating cold pease-porridge. A DILLER, A DOLLAR. A diller, a dollar, A ten o'clock scholar, What makes... | |
 | Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith - Children's poetry - 1907 - 280 pages
...follows his nose where'er he goes, And that stands all awry. r The man in the moon Came down too soon, And asked his way to Norwich : He went by the south, And burnt his mouth With eating cold plum-porridge. r Dear, dear! what can the matter be? Two old women got up in an apple-tree... | |
 | Edward Archibald Allen - English language - 1909 - 184 pages
...no, kind sir, you will snap our heads off." 3. 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. The good man sat beside his door One sultry afternoon, With his young wife... | |
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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. 
