| Andrew Lang - Animals - 1897 - 300 pages
...then they could not find him. He ran fourteen miles in fifteen days, And never looked behind him. THE lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ;...The lion beat the unicorn All round about the town. 63 Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown ; Some gave them plum-cake, And sent them out... | |
| David Salmon - English language - 1899 - 296 pages
...dared not meet his father. The smith hears his daughter sing. The mother let the girl go home. The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown;...The lion beat the unicorn All round about the town. Two little kittens one stormy night Began to quarrel and then to fight. A was an apple pie ; B bit... | |
| William Thomas Fernie - Animal extracts - 1899 - 600 pages
...chiefly in jelly, as a restorative. A familiar rhyme of remote nursery antiquity tells how : — " The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ;...The lion beat the unicorn All round about the town." Quite right, too, and what was to be expected ! But why, we wonder, did " Some give them white bread,... | |
| Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1899 - 120 pages
...Over the hills and far away." JACK of all trades and master of none. THE LION AND THE UNICORN. The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ; The lion beat the unicorn All about the town. Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown, Some gave them plum-cake, And... | |
| George James Smith - English language - 1901 - 360 pages
...dared not meet his father. The smith hears his daughter sing. The mother let the girl go home. The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ;...The lion beat the unicorn All round about the town. Two little kittens one stormy night Began to quarrel and then to fight. A was an apple pie ; B bit... | |
| George James Smith - English language - 1901 - 364 pages
...dared not meet his father. The smith hears his daughter sing. The mother let the girl go home. The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ;...The lion beat the unicorn All round about the town. Two little kittens one stormy night Began to quarrel and then to fight. A was an apple pie ; B bit... | |
| Frederick Brigham De Berard - Literature - 1902 - 422 pages
...them." And they trotted off, Alice repeating to herself, as she ran, the words of the old song: "The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown: The Lion beat the Unicorn all round the town. Some gave them white bread, some gave them brown; Some gave them plum-cake and drummed them... | |
| Children's poetry - 1903 - 518 pages
...way to Norwich, He went by the south, And burned his mouth With supping cold pease-porridge. <*£ THE lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ;...beat the unicorn All round about the town. Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown ; Some gave them plum-cake, And sent them out of town. 23... | |
| Charles Eliot Norton - Readers - 1903 - 138 pages
...boys; And they stopped to hear him play, " Over the hills and far away." THE LION AND THE UNICORN. The lion and the unicorn Were fighting for the crown ; The lion beat the unicorn All about the town. Some gave them white bread, And some gave them brown, Some gave them plum-cake, And... | |
| Frederick Brigham De Berard - Literature - 1905 - 330 pages
...them." And they trotted off, Alice repeating to herself, as she ran, the words of the old song: "The Lion and the Unicorn were fighting for the crown: The Lion beat the Unicorn all round the town. Some gave them white bread, some gave them brown; Some gave them plum-cake and drummed them... | |
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